Douglass Hospital
KCQ takes on three of your Kansas City history questions
A body in the old Waldo water tower? The first hospital for Black patients west of the Mississippi River? Before the Chiefs … the Blues? What’s Your KCQ?, on which the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star collaborate to answer reader-submitted questions about local history, quirks, and curiosities, tackles a trio of recent inquiries: As a kid, I remember hearing a body was once found inside the Waldo water tower. Did that really happen? What's the history of Douglass Hospital in KCK? I heard Kansas City had a pro football team that played at Muehlebach Field before the Chiefs. Is that true?