Argentine is a community of Kansas City, Kansas , located in the southern part of Wyandotte County . It is bordered on the west by the Turner community, on the east by the Rosedale community, on the south by Johnson County , and on the north by Armourdale community and by the Kansas River .
8-678: The White Feather Spring is in the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas . It is on private property . White Feather Spring is named after Susan White Feather, the first property owner after the Treaty of 1854 land parceling . In 1826, Tenskwatawa established a village at a site in modern Kansas City, Kansas. Tensquatawa, known as the Shawnee Prophet, was the younger brother of the Shawnee war chief , Tecumseh . Tensquatawa built Prophetstown near
16-526: A property in Kansas on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Argentine, Kansas Argentine was primarily recognized for the prosperous silver smeltery for which it was named. Built on the site of a former Shawnee reservation, the proximity of the railroad, local lumber sources, the smeltery, and in later years, steel manufacturing, meant that
24-543: Is J. C. Harmon High School , which opened in 1973 as the fusion of Argentine Senior High School and Rosedale Senior High School. The neighborhood has its own middle school, Argentine Middle School . Kansas City, Kansas Public Library currently operates the South Branch Library in Argentine, with 21,000 square feet (2,000 m ) of space. The name was chosen to reflect that it serves the entire southern region of
32-522: The Indian Territory and got Charles Bluejacket , who had been present at the Prophet's burial when he was 20 years old, to locate the grave. He located the natural spring , where the Prophet's home was and told those present where the Prophet's grave was. A temporary marker was placed but later removed. No permanent marker was installed and the exact grave location is not known. This article about
40-664: The Kansas City metropolitan area ), the grave of Tecumseh 's brother, the Shawnee prophet Tensquatawa at White Feather Spring , Sauer Castle at 945 Shawnee Road, and the Argentine mural located at 30th Street and Metropolitan Avenue. The neighborhood is the location of one of three rail yards on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad , the Argentine Yard . It is in the Kansas City, Kansas School District . Its local high school
48-584: The city and not a single neighborhood. It formerly operated the Argentine Carnegie Library which opened in 1911 in a storefront and received its own Carnegie building in 1917. By 1998 it, on the National Register of Historic Places , was the sole remaining Carnegie library in the city. In 2012 the current South Branch opened, and it cost $ 6 million, with a third of it made in fundraisers by local residents. The school district agreed to pay for
56-502: The city enjoyed a considerable amount of economic success for quite some time. When the smeltery finally closed, the city found itself in the throes of an unprecedented financial crisis and began to seek entry to nearby Kansas City in 1907. Although the community was annexed and became the seventh ward of Kansas City, Kansas in 1910, the neighborhood retains its own distinct flavor and personality. Prominent nearby landmarks include Argentine Carnegie Library (the last Carnegie library in
64-567: The present South 26th Street and Woodend Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. He later moved from there to White Feather Spring. He died here in November 1836. It is located in the Argentine community of Kansas City, Kansas. The grave of the Prophet, about 75-100 yards to the northwest of his home, was not marked for around sixty years. An editor of the Kansas City Sun , E. F. Heisler, in 1897 went to
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