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Title
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Sni-a-Bar Road
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Description
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Information on the origin of the name "Sni-a-Bar" as in Sni-a-Bar Farm and Sni-a-Bar Road (originally called Nelson Road).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Historical Notes--Sniabar
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Description
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Speculations on the origin of the name "Sni-a-Bar," starting with 1804 and all of French etymology.
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Date
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1881-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Nelson Drive
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Description
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Postcard of Nelson Drive under construction.
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Date
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1910
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Object Type
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Postcard
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Title
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How Districts Get Names
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Description
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Article about the origins of area place names like Toad-a-Loop, Tour-de-Loup, and Sni-a-Bar, all supposed to be of French origin etymologically. "One of the troublesome place names in Kansas City is that of Toad-a-loop, the bottoms southwest of the city proper. The accepted story of its origin is that frogs abounded in the ponds there.... In any event, it was a disbelief in this version that started a study of the name. The rocky bluffs facing the Kansas River . . . where it joins the Missouri. Large holes in these bluffs formed homes for many wolves, and trappers, stopping off here, grew familiar with these animals as they came and went from their dens. This semi-circular place became well known to these French trappers as Tour-de-Loup, "the walk of the wolf." (Loup being French for wolf.)"
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Date
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1925-01-04
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
