Moving - Saint Louis, Kansas

If you are looking for a moving company to relocate you in or out of Saint Louis, KS, we can help you. Movers USA's moving services include packing, crating, moving, and storage if you need some time to search for your new home.

Please read our brief history about Saint Louis, KS.  It's interesting.

A Brief History of Saint Louis, Kansas

Railroads came into Kansas at a time when the state was rapidly expanding, making land valuable, which without railroads would be practically worthless. Railroads have built cities, and have made some cities and have dwarfed others, killing many villages.

Railroads in Kansas had their beginning with the quest for a Transcontinental Route to connect the East with the West. The first railroad construction west of the Mississippi was begun in Saint Louis by the Pacific Railroad on July 4, 1851. Although begun at a later date the Hannibal and Saint Joseph, completed in 1859, was the first railroad to reach the border of Kansas Territory. During that year a junction was made between this line and the North Missouri Railroad at Macon, Missouri, providing through rail service from Saint Louis to Saint Joseph. Meanwhile south of the Missouri River, the Pacific had pushed construction to Jefferson City by 1855 and to Sedalia by January 1861. Among the several railroads incorporated in Kansas at that time was one, the Elwood and Marysville Railroad conceived as an extension of the fast building Hannibal and Saint Joseph. This little line ultimately had the distinction of becoming Kansas' first railroad. It was organized in January 1857 but had not laid a single length of rail by the time the Hannibal and Saint Joseph was celebrating its arrival at Saint Jo, Missouri, just across the river from Elwood on February 23, 1859. On March 30 the first rail was laid. By April 23rd they had five miles of rail wandering unsteadily down to Wathena.