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  James Madison Hunter Notes  

Hunter's Block, Westport, Missouri


HUNTER'S BLOCK, as it is known, at 1501 Westport Road, ran south to the alley on Pennsylvania.  James Madison Hunter came to Westport in the early 1830s.  John C. McCoy's town wasn't attracting as many people as he thought it should, so in return for a promise to settle in Westport and start a business, McCoy gave him "the half block between Mill and Pennsylvania, plus two acres of land adjoining."


Hunter started a saddle and harness shop on the northeast corner of Lot 15, now the southwest corner of Westport Road and Pennsylvania.  He traded with the Indians in partnership with James Simpson and also his brother, Duke Simpson.

In 1846, McCoy gave Hunter a deed for all the property he had previously given him for a consideration of $20.

What is now Linwood Boulevard in Kansas City was once named Hunter Street in his honor.


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