By Allan Cornford
Copyright © 2022 Allan Cornford. (Standard Copyright License.) All rights reserved. Independently Published through KDP. The images which are included for informative purposes only, are Screenshots, courtesy of Ewaranon’s YouTube documentary; ‘The Lost History of the Flat Earth’. All external links to images in the public domain, are courtesy from Wikimedia Commons and where possible, credits are given to each source. This I believe, comes under the term of Fair Use.
According to Wikipedia:
“the Great Flood of 1844 is the biggest flood ever recorded on the Missouri River and Upper Mississippi River, in North America, in terms of discharge.”
Among the hardest hit in terms of mortality were the Wyandot Indians, who lost 100 people in a cholera epidemic that occurred after the flood in the vicinity of today’s Kansas City, Kansas.
The flood also caused settlers to go further west to Westport Landing in Kansas City,
“which resulted in significant local economic and cultural impact.”
According to Dr. Richard Gentile, Professor Emeritus of Geology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the old settlement town of Kansas at the time, was virtually washed away by the flood, and had to be completely rebuilt.
According to Wikipedia, Kansas was incorporated as a town on June 1, 1850, and as a city on March 28, 1853.
By 1857, and having started from scratch in 1844, Dr. Gentile records that the town of Kansas had; 40 manufacturers, including:
- 5 sawmills
- 3 brick yards
- 2 grain mills
- blacksmith and wagon makers
- 16 hotels
- 26 salons
and a large number of gambling houses.
The population was estimated to be 4,000.
Far be it from me to question the expertise of a fully qualified geologist, and a Professor Emeritus to boot, but that many premises, including 40 manufacturers and 16 hotels, seems an incredible achievement over a period of 13 years.
Especially when his own personal collection of photographs taken in the late 1860’s, appear to tell a completely different story.
Rather than being a thriving town, it is virtually empty, with just a handful of pedestrians and the occasional mule or two wandering the streets.
From all accounts, the terrain the city was built on was a hostile and barren environment, consisting of:
- steep hills
- gorges
- ravines
Furthermore, much of the limestone bedrock was buried beneath a thick blanket of loess.
By the 1860’s, developers had cut through the big limestone bluffs that had been deterrents to southern expansion of the city from the river area.
A collection of astounding photographs taken in Kansas City, Missouri, back in the Spring of 1867, show 3-story buildings erected on limestone bedrock, whilst the huge mounds of loess around them, are in the process of being dug out.
I do find it strange however, that of all the available photographs of streets being levelled, and completed buildings, there is a noticeable absence of buildings under construction.
For the closest to a building actually in the process of being constructed, that I’ve been able to find, is an old black and white photograph taken in 1869, and bearing the caption, Removing the blanket of loess.
The site is being graded for construction of the Nelson Hotel, Northeastern corner of 2nd and Main streets June 1869.
One photograph shows the magnificent 4-story Gilliss House Hotel, which was designed with two 4-story wings separated by a 5-story central tower, which is topped with an octagonal cupola.
Gilliss House Hotel Historical Marker
In fact, it looks remarkably like an old world structure, hence more likely to have been an inherited building.
Built in the 1850’s or so we are told, the Gilliss House stands on a thick layer of limestone bedrock, whilst the huge mounds of soil in the foreground have been dug out to street level.
The official story maintains that the streets were being graded or lowered at the time.
Yet although one cannot be certain, it appears from the photo that the street already existed and was actually in the process of being excavated.
The depth of the trench is around 20 feet, which can be reasonably estimated due to the men with their horses and covered wagons, busy with shovels at the base of the excavation site.
Meaning, if indeed the streets were already present at that time, they had previously been buried beneath 20 or more feet of soil.
One of Dr. Richard Gentile’s extraordinary photographs (number 25) shows a small section of the left-hand wall and the entire frontage, along with part of the apex roof of the large 2-storey Mechanics Bank Building.
(2nd street between Delaware and Main streets, 1871.
Mechanics Bank building on left and a large new building on the right.)
It appears that the main street out front, and the entire right-hand side of the building has already been cleared or excavated.
For the summit of the huge stack of soil piled high against both the left-hand side and the rear of the building, far exceeds the height of both storys plus the capped ridge running along the top of the sloping roof.
There are no photographs, or none that I’ve been able to find anyway, of the Mechanics Bank under construction.
So, the question is, was this large 2-story building deliberately erected flush against the huge vertical bluff, standing both alongside and behind it?
Or does the photograph reveal an entire building being exhumed from the grave, so to speak?
A building found buried beneath hundreds of tons of loess and in the process of being excavated?
If so, this is hidden history at its finest and revealed in an early photograph.
As far as I can figure there could only be two possible reasons for this.
- The construction of the Mechanics Bank was completed by the early settlers, who in their haste, had not bothered to excavate at least half of the loess surrounding it.
- The early settlers had discovered buildings that should not have been there.
Old world structures found buried beneath hundreds of tons of loess.
The photograph was taken in 1867 as the excavation work was underway, but still only half completed.
Either way, logic dictates that buildings cannot possibly be buried in soil without having been constructed beforehand.
In an article titled
“The rock ledge along the Missouri River that gave birth to Kansas City”
Dr. Richard Gentile offers the following strange information; Dr. Lester, a physician, had an office on Main Street between 2nd and 3rd street.
He left for a week, and during his absence, the street was graded and lowered 10 feet.
He just added another floor.
One year later the street was lowered another 12 feet.
He just added another floor.
Thus, he built a 3-story office building from the top down.
What does:
”building from the top down”
even mean?
The more I read it, the less sense it makes.
For if the street out front of any building is lowered by 10 feet, it will make no difference whatsoever to the height of that building.
A 3-story building will remain a 3-storey building regardless of workmen digging holes in the street.
Overall, the article itself is highly informative concerning the early history of Kansas City, and the author has quite a remarkable collection photographs from the mid to late 1800’s.
Then we are introduced to Dr. Lester, who in 1867, somehow managed to
”build a 3-story office building from the top down.”
Maybe it was said ”tongue in cheek”, so to speak.
Who knows?
But I certainly find statements of such nature intriguing.
Could this be an attempt to explain why the third level of the building was the first to fully appear from the soil during the excavation work?
That rather than building from the top down, the workmen excavated the building from the top down?
But somehow, these early settlers without the:
- funding
- resources
- skills
erected buildings that rivalled old world architecture in practically no time at all.
For suddenly, and as if out of nowhere, we’re told that the iconic 4 story Diamond Building was completed in Kansas City in 1870.
Photographs of the building show a highly sophisticated structure, with a French-style Mansard Roof, that being a roof with two slopes on all four sides.
This magnificent building, which is totally alien to the timeline presented by the official narrative, was demolished in 1915.
By ”totally alien”, I mean the grand architectural style of the building looks completely out of character within its surroundings.
It was even referred to by the Kansas City Times (Feb 9/2020) as being a ‘Diamond in the Rough.’
One of KC’s most iconic buildings was a diamond in the rough – Martin City Telegraph
As mentioned earlier, there were many strange things going on in the nineteenth century, that we have not been informed of.
CIVILIZATION: RICHEST in 19th Century – Library of Rickandria
Instead, we have been presented with a fabricated, or at best, sanitized narrative.
The controllers do not want folk to question the narrative and think for themselves.
At the same time, they become complacent, knowing full well that few will believe the folk who do take the time to question the narrative.
To quote the Greek philosopher, Plato:
“Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.”
CONTINUE
BOOK: Tartarian Rule? Or Millennial Kingdom? – Library of Rickandria
BOOK: EXCERPT: Tartarian Rule? Or Millennial Kingdom? – Birth of a City