State Line Road

State Line Road is a major north/south street in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area that runs along the Kansas/Missouri border. It connects U.S. Highway 56 in the north with Route 150 in the south. Cities along the road include Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas, and several smaller communities in Kansas such as Leawood, Mission Hills, Prairie Village, and Westwood Hills.

Most northbound traffic is in Missouri, while most southbound traffic is in Kansas.

State Line Road is home to
*the home and freighting office of Alexander Majors, a building on the National Register of Historic Places and located at 8145 State Line Road. [ [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(NUMBER+@band(MO0764)) Built in America: Alexander Majors House] from the American Memory archives of the Library of Congress]
*several schools on the Missouri side, such as Barstow, Pembroke Hill and Rockhurst High School
* Ward Parkway Center at 8600 Ward Parkway

In 2001 Leawood promoted State Line Road as "The State Line Link" [http://www.leawood.org/council/2001%20Minutes/5-21.pdf]

ee also

* State Line Avenue, a similar road in Texarkana.

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