The Harrisonville area was originally inhabited by the " Dhegilha " Native American subgroup.

The first American settler on the site of modern Harrisonville was James Lackey in 1830.

In the spring of 1837 the town of Harrisonville was located by Enoch Rice, Francis Prine and Welcome Scott, who had been appointed commissioners by the state legislature in the winter of 1836.

On October 8, 1835, the first church in Harrisonville was organized in the county two miles southwest of town known as Hopewell or New Hope Baptist.

The first jail in Harrisonville and second for the county was established in 1838.

Harrisonville eventually was served by railroad lines presently known as the Missouri Pacific and the Frisco.

At the time of the shootings, a Republican newspaper, belonging to Mr. Porter J. Coston, in Harrisonville, Missouri, was burned by the same mob.

Fort Harrisonville was a Union stronghold for a brief period in 1863 and provided protection for loyal Union families.

Battle Ground was consolidated in 1867 with the Town of Harrisonville.

The Town of Battle Ground was named for the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Town of Harrisonville was named after William Henry Harrison, commander of the American forces of the Battle of Tippecanoe.

The area suffered greatly during the American Civil War, though Harrisonville was one of the few places exempted in Union General Thomas Ewing's notorious General Order No. 11 ( 1863 ), which ordered the depopulation of four entire Missouri counties.

In 1972, Harrisonville was the site of escalating tensions between a handful of would-be hippies -- mostly Vietnam veterans — and town elders, which culminated in a brief rampage by 25-year-old Charlie " Ootney " Simpson.

The family moved to Harrisonville in 1857, and in 1859 Henry was assigned as second mayor of the city.

From 1922 to 1926, Route 35 took the western route between Harrisonville and Kansas City, while Route 1 ( Missouri 1922 ) Route 1 followed present Route 291 ; US 71 replaced that part of Route 1 in 1926, but followed what had been Route 35, and so Route 35 was moved east to replace the piece of Route 1 bypassed by US 71.

Its eastern terminus was at Route 13 in Warrensburg, and its western terminus was at Route 1 ( now Route 291 ) north of Harrisonville.

The section between Harrisonville ( at a junction with U. S. Route 71 ) and Clinton ( at a junction with Route 13 ) provides an important link for traffic between Springfield and Kansas City.

Farmer Jim Dahlberg ( John Cullum ) and his family live in rural Harrisonville, Missouri, far outside of Kansas City but very close to a field of missile silos.

At early camp meetings southwest of Harrisonville after Americans came, as many as 500 Native Americans were often in attendance and seemed to enjoy religious services as much as the whites, with whom they mingled on such occasions.

Those who remained in the Harrisonville area were close relatives of the Sauk, Fox and Kickapoo tribes.

Harrisonville ranked 37th with a population of 675.

East Lynne is east of Harrisonville and US Route 71.

Harrisonville is a city in Cass County, Missouri, United States.

Harrisonville is located at ( 38. 653592 ,-94. 346915 ).

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