Blue Springs City

Blue Springs City Hall is located at 903 West Main Street, Blue Springs, MO 64015; phone: 816-228-0110.

Beginnings [1]

The area that would become Blue Springs was settled around 1838 by Franklin Smith who had come from Virginia. Smith led the development of Blue Springs; he established the first post office (1845) naming it after the well-known springs.

Until 1878 the settlement grew around the vicinity of the Springs. At that time the Chicago and Alton Railroad planned to built a station about a mile east of the settlement. The town moved its center to the site of the new station. Blue Springs was incorporated in 1880.

1. City of Blue Springs, History, www.bluespringsgov.com, accessed July, 2011.