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Maitland, MO - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Maitland  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Maitland Home page. The Maitland Home page provides as much information as possible on Maitland. Knowing Maitland’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Maitland’s Home page, you will also find Maitland’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Maitland has a population of 250. 48.4% of Maitland’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.6 are female. 52.3% of Maitland is married and 72% own their own home. Household median income in Maitland is $43,750, and the individual median income is $25,893. Maitland’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.6%), Asian(6.8%), Hispanic(2.4%), Multiple(1.6%).


Maitland was platted in 1880. The town is named after John Skirving Maitland, who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad (the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 when its superintendent, John Fisk Barnard, purchased the land for the town from John S.


and Delila Swope. The railroad would eventually be taken over by the Burlington Northern Railroad before eventually being abandoned. Maitland is a farming community. One of the farmers from Maitland was David Ward King, inventor and promoter of the King road drag—an invention that essentially was two logs lashed together and dragged behind horse or mule teams that was an effective and inexpensive method to grade dirt roads.


It was the horse-drawn forerunner of the modern road grader. The invention came at the time Henry Ford started to mass-produce automobiles. Before its invention, wet country roads became muck and were often nearly impassable. The use of the King Road Drag kept rural roads solid, even when wet, which rendered them passable all the time.


These improved rural roads made possible both the advent of the automobile and rural mail delivery.In the first half of the 20th century, Maitland claimed to have the largest bluegrass seed producing farm in the world. John Q. Weller was to claim that the 10,000,000 pounds (4,500,000 kg) of seed produced on his farm was more than the harvested seed output of the entire state of Kentucky.


In some years, Weller would get permission to pile up bumper crops of seed on the city streets. During the harvest time in late June/early July, the town hosted a Bluegrass festival. Bluegrass seed production in the late 1950s/early 1960s moved to farming communities in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.


The Festival had been discontinued. In 1975 the Maitland Community Betterment Association celebrated the bluegrass stripping heritage with the slogan, "Home of the Strippers."


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