Rosedale, Kansas is a community of Kansas City, Kansas, in the southeast corner of Wyandotte County and bordered on the north by the Kansas River and the Armourdale neighborhood, on the south by Johnson County, on the west by the Argentine neighborhood, and on the east by the state of Missouri. It is home to the Rosedale World War I Memorial Arch and the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Rosedale originated as “The Town of Rosedale, Shawnee Township” in 1872. In 1875, a new population requirement of 600 persons was established to become a “City of the Third Class” in Kansas. A petition was presented to Hiram Stevens, Judge of the Tenth Judicial District (Wyandotte, Johnson, and Miami counties). The judge issued an order for incorporating the village as a city and the election of officers was held on August 28, 1877. The new city was named “The City of Rosedale, Kansas.”
By 1897 the area known as Rosedale had a population of over 2,000 inhabitants. Rosedale remained an independent city until it was annexed by Kansas City, Kansas in 1922.
Education
It is in the Kansas City, Kansas School District.
Elementary schools include: Bed Bug Exterminator Kansas City
- T. A. Edison Elementary School has about 330 students. Edison, in 1954, received a ten-room expansion.
- Noble Prentis School: Noble Prentis School was built in 1912 as a four-room school. An additional four rooms and activity room were installed in 1950 with an additional expansion on floors 2 and 3 in 1955.
- Frank Rushton Elementary School: Maple Leaf School was built in Rosedale in 1911 and later renamed after University of Kansas chancellor Dr. Francis Huntington Snow. A new building was built in 1956, and the school was renamed again after Rosedale Schools and later Kansas City Schools board member Frank Rushton. Rosedale Middle School is the local middle school. Its local high school is J. C. Harmon High School.
“Cooks Hall” hosted the first school in Rosedale, and “The Public School” or “The White School”, later “Whitmore” after one of the teachers, was the first standalone school. The average enrollment was about 250 people. In 1899 the new Whitmore school, with eight regular rooms and four other rooms, was established, with construction bids received the previous August.
Nearby Restaurant and Pubs
- Joe’s Kansas City Bar B-B-Que is located at 3002 W 47th Ave, Kansas City, KS
- Vietnam Café is located at 2200 W 39 Ave, Kansas City, KS
- Kelly’s Westport Inn is located at 500 Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO
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