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• During the decade of the 90s, Cass County grew three times as quickly as the state of Missouri as a whole.
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• The county was first organized in 1835 as Van Buren County.
It was renamed in 1849 after Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan.
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• In the last few years, Cass County has been growing at a annual rate of nearly 4%, seven times higher than the overall growth
rate of Missouri.
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• William Quantrill launched his notorious 1863 assault on Lawrence from a farm near Belton, Missouri.
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• Following the raid, the Federal Government ordered all persons
in Cass County living outside of Harrisonville or Pleasant Hill to vacate their premises within fifteen days. Missouri artist
George Caleb Bingham painted his famed "Order Number 11"
in response to General Ewing's stern enforcement of this law.
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•A mural by Tom Lea depicting a confederate family's return home after Order No. 11 may be seen in the lobby of the Pleasant Hill
Post Office.
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• 87% of Cass County adults have high school diplomas or better,
a rate well above state and national norms.
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• Like Lenexa or Olathe, Harrisonville might have been named after the Indian tribe that originally settled in the area, but no one would have been able to spell "DHEGILHA."
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• Cass County's home ownership rate of 80% is more than 20% higher than the national norm. The cost per home is roughly 15% less.
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• A new town in Cass County needed a name, but the U.S. Post Office rejected one name after another as they were already taken.
"We don't care what name you give us," the town fathers wrote
in exasperation, "so long as it is sort of peculiar." The U.S. Post Office obliged, and Peculiar, Missouri was born.
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• Cass's non-farm employment increased by nearly 60% in the decade of the 90s, more than three times quicker than the national rate.
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• The City Hall Museum at Belton, Missouri, maintains an exhibit in honor of famed temperance crusader and native daughter, the famed Carrie Nation, and the city has its own Carrie Nation festival.
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