Name: Engineered Irony: Crossing Octave Chanute’s Kansas City Bridge
Start: 2025-06-21T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-06-21T15:00:00-05:00
Location: The Museum of Kansas City

$Engineered Irony: Crossing Octave Chanute\u2019s Kansas City Bridge$

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Saturday, June 21

Engineered Irony: Crossing Octave Chanute’s Kansas City Bridge for Trains and Teams, 1867-1917

2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

$5 per person

Believe it or not, it was Hannibal Bridge that forged Kansas City's future in 1869. Without that pivotal moment, local history would have chugged along quite a different set of rails. Some say it MADE Kansas City.

All aboard for a fast-track history on the people who built this historical monument as local author, archivist, and historic preservationist David W. Jackson shares the timetable that took him 10-plus years to stoke.

A book signing to follow. Wisteria and Elixir will also be open!