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One of the better known landmarks from Concordia's past was named Hamburger Hill, located in Davis Township just northwest of Concordia. It was the steepest hill in the area. Does anyone know how ...

Since KU lost its last two games in the Olympic tryouts, Frank Kappelman missed an opportunity to participate in the 1936 Olympic Games and march in front of Adolph Hitler in Berlin during the opening ...

The following email was sent to various Kappelman relatives------

Now that Kansas University has won the 2022 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tournament (Boo! for those of you familiar with the ...

Fred Eggers from the Lutheran Heritage Center has done extensive research about the Gruber family, including Joseph Gruber who was a teacher at St. Paul's Elementary School, Concordia from 1862-1865. ...

Photos of the matchbook posted above are shown below. The top edge of the cover shows the name of the proprietor of the Forrestville Garage, Henry Louis Pape (1921-1989). He was the only Henry Pape ...

Is anyone familiar with a Forrestville, Mo. or Forrestville Garage just south of Concordia? A former resident of Concordia contacted me noting that he had an old matchbook cover with the imprint Hen ...

Back in the 1940's to 50's there was a friendly rivalry between the people living in North Concordia and those in South Concordia. The dividing line between these two groups was the MoPac railroad tr ...

Was the character, Sister Sharon Falconer, faith healer in the book Elmer Gantry based on Kathryn Kuhlman? Sinclair Lewis who wrote this satirical novel of fundamentalist religion during the 1920s, p ...

“aus bei mit nach seit von zu.” How many of you remember that cheer by the SPC student body during a basketball game in Kaeppel gymnasium? Besides the usual cheers, there were others in foreign langu ...

Are you having trouble locating Concordia on the WhatWasThere.com website? For some reason, the website has a problem locating a city when you type the name into the searchbox. However, there is an ...

While reviewing the picture of Main St. in the posting above, I tried to visualize the buildings in the picture as they appeared when I was growing up. I had a flashback to my early youth sometime in ...

There is a surprising number of places around the world with the name of Concordia. It has the distinction of appearing on every continent on earth. Besides the United States, the name can be found ...

Concordia, MO celebrated its centennial during the summer/fall of 1960. But why 1960?
During the latter 1950s, other cities in the area were celebrating their centennials. People in Concordia reali ...

As noted in other postings, the selection of the name Concordia for a small German settlement in the southeast corner of Lafayette County, MO is credited to Rev. F. Julius Biltz when he became the fir ...

Some of you may remember the song lyrics “give me land lots of land under starry skies above”. Although under different circumstances, this was the sentiment of the early settlers of Concordia. They d ...