1 Jan 1923 Jahr - Fairfax Industrial District

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(Union Pacific Yard Office for the Buick Oldsmobile Pontiac Plant. Fairfax Industrial District Kansas City Kansas 1951 to 2005. Fairfax Bridge 1957 also shown. My 1976 Toyota Corolla on the left. Photo 1983 Curtis V. Smith)

In 1923 the Kansas City Industrial Land Company, a subsidiary of the Union Pacific purchased and developed an area that became the Fairfax Industrial District, with railyards and businesses that included an iron and steel foundry, an oil refinery, a thresher assembly plant, construction companies, a lumber mill, and an aviation school and small airfield.
Fairfax is located on the Goose Island river bend of the Missouri River north of downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The Flood of 1880 had moved the Missouri River main current and main channel from around the north, east, and south to the west creating an island on the Kansas side of the river. The state of Kansas filed a petition for the land in 1909 which was passed by the United States Supreme Court. Flood protection levees were built around the district with dikes extending from Quindaro downstream around Goose Island to the mouth of the Kansas River. The Fairfax Airport built in 1929 had 14 natural gas wells for extra revenue. Rearwin Airplane and American Eagle were manufacturing aircraft in the district. During World War II, a large bomber parts plant was built and a rubber company was also started during the war. An air freight terminal for Military Air Transport was opened in 1945. General Motors leased the Air Force Plant for automobile assembly and built post war F-84F aircraft at the plant.

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