Country Club District south from the Country Club Plaza, the first suburban shopping district in the United States. J.C. Nichols began developing the district in 1906 with a neighborhood he called Bismarck Place. As his development expanded to include Countryside, he began to develop a master plan, which he dubbed the Country Club District because of its proximity to what was then the site of Kansas City Country Club, now Loose Park. Eventually, Nichols acquired a tract of land crossing from Missouri into Kansas, which now includes the neighborhood of Sunset Hill (in Missouri) and the city of Mission Hills (in Kansas). Nichols
Whiskey River Whiskey River "Whiskey River" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Johnny Bush. He released the song in 1972 through RCA Victor and included it on his album "Whiskey River". Bush later re-recorded the song in 1981 and released it through the Delta label, with "When My Conscience Hurts the Most" on the b-side. Willie Nelson first recorded "Whiskey River" for the album "Shotgun Willie" in 1973. In 1978, a recording from Nelson's live album "Willie and Family Live" was released as a single through Columbia Records. "Whiskey River", despite not being a Nelson original, has