In Sedalia, Missouri, motorists with automotive needs are encouraged to stop by a new and used car dealership in Columbia today for their new Honda. With all the adventure we have in store for you, you should enrich your journey with a new Hondas.

Here at Columbia Honda, we have a car rental center staffed by friendly staff dedicated to customer service. Katy's Depot is located at 600 East Third Street and is open to the public. The building has a dining room and office on the second floor, as well as a large car park and a multi-storey car park. The Sedalia depot houses the dining rooms and offices on the second floor, and is one of the largest car dealerships in the state.

The Roundhouse for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad is located on Broadway and in Hancock. Missouri Pacific Railroad also has its depot at Fifth & Hancock, and the line's depot is bounded by Fifth & Hancock as well as a large second-floor parking lot.

Sedalia became the headquarters of the large Overland Stage Line as soon as the railway reached Sedalia. The crowd cheered on the track, which provided a direct link to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in Kansas City and St. Louis.

As a result, Sedalia became a popular destination for Confederate sympathizers and soldiers who kept the inhabitants of Sedalia in a state of high excitement. As a result, they were kept in the state's agitation during the Civil War by the Confederate Army of Missouri and the Missouri National Guard.

The city's continued prosperity as a whole meant that the central business district expanded along South Ohio Avenue. By the 1940s, the city had largely recovered and had 20,428 residents, but the Pacific businesses of Missouri employed more than 1,000 men. More of these led to a significant population increase in Sedalia, so that at that time there were about 2000 men working for one or two railroads. This growth continued until the mid-1940s and into the early 1950s, when more shops, restaurants and hotels were added.

The Depression took its toll on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, which eventually closed its stores. Employment at Missouri Pacific's stores declined by 450 people and reopened after World War II.

The last train from Missouri, Kansas and Texas passed Sedalia on May 31, 1953, fueled by the growth of the automotive industry. Sedia was given a second railroad in 1861, when the Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway of Katy arrived and the first passenger trains arrived on January 17, 1861. The Missouri Pacific Railroad came late in the year and continued to build until it set up a depot on the east side of Third and Engineer Streets. On the west side was the depot of the Kansas City, Missouri and St. Louis Railroad and a few miles further south.

Bricks from Boonville, Washington and Jefferson City had to be imported first, until a brickworks was founded three miles north of the city in 1866. It was built on what is now the south side of Third Street between Third Street and Engineer Street, south of the railroad tracks.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad built a brick shop, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad built a hospital. Founded in 1883 by Clark W. Robbins (1858 - 1918), Robbins Business College was the first business college in the state of Missouri and one of the oldest business colleges in America. The new building at 311 West Third Street was inaugurated in 1924 and replaces a small library located in the basement of the Pettis County Courthouse. Although the college burned down on April 26, 1925, it was operated until its assets were merged into Robbins College of Business and Business Administration, a public business school in Jefferson City.

Most of the early business was limited to the west and southwest, where wagon trains carried goods from west to southwest. Many jobs were associated with the men who maintained the tracks and ran the large and diverse machinery workshops that operated the Missouri Pacific, Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and other railroads in the area. Sedia remained a trading center even after the railroad replaced the wagons and continued to serve as a trading center between the western states of Missouri and the eastern United States. Wagons and goods brought there by rail soon displaced wagon trains and their freight trains from the east and west, and from the southwest to the east.

The city hosts the Scott Joplin Festival every year in early June, and the Missouri State Fair continues to welcome nearly 400,000 visitors each August.

Check out the full list of events in Sedalia, Missouri's second largest city, and stop by to see for yourself.

History of Pettis County, Missouri, which includes a history of the district from its inception to the present day. The fair will feature a project being prepared in collaboration with the Sedalia Public Library and the Missouri State Museum of Natural History.