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Grandview is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 24,475 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. [4] History. A post office called Grandview has been in operation since 1889. [5] . The city was named for the view obtained from the elevated town site. [6] Geography.
The site is operated by the National Park Service, with its centerpieces being the Truman Home in Independence and the Truman Farm Home in Grandview. It also includes the Noland home of Truman's cousins, and the George and Frank Wallace homes of Bess Truman 's brothers.
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Over the decades, Grandview grew from railroads to runways. Grandview became a proud military town when the United States Air Force leased Grandview Air Force Base, later renamed Richards-Gebaur AFB. With it came a surge of military personnel and their families. Right behind them a construction boom.
Grandview is where 33rd President Harry Truman grew up working on the family farm. The City grew from a farming community into a rail town beginning in 1912, and eventually became home to many servicemen and women stationed at the nearby Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base until its closure in 1994.
History of Grandview, MO. Grandview, Missouri traces its origins to a rural farming community that began developing in the mid-1800s. The community grew slowly at first, with the 1889 establishment of a post office being an important development. Grandview was finally incorporated as a city on February 6, 1912.
The Harry S. Truman Farm Home, also known as the Solomon Young Farm, is a historic farm property at 12301 Blue Ridge Blvd in Grandview, Missouri. The farm property, first developed in the 1860s, was the residence of future U.S. president Harry S. Truman from 1906 to 1917.
