Mission City Hall is an older brick building that also contains the Mission Police Department.
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Once, our "small Midwestern city" was a stopping point for covered wagons on the way west via the Santa Fe Trail. Because of the clear blue water in free-flowing springs, these pioneer ancestors looked forward to setting up campsites in Mission. The springs, likewise, enticed the first residents of Mission, since the precious water was free. Mission grew as America grew, becoming the first suburb as Kansas City emerged as our sophisticated cosmopolitan neighbor on the east.
Originally called Mission Hill Acres, this suburb was sub-divided into 245 lots and offered by the Breyfogel family for sale. By 1928 there were five businesses; a drug store, restaurant, hardware and dry goods store, a barber shop, and a cleaning and pressing establishment.
In 1930, we had the first Mission grocery store, and in 1940 a post office. Today, we have three major shopping malls and a million square feet of office space. People come to Mission from all directions, to work and shop, see their doctors, dentists, lawyers and other professionals, and enjoy "big city services" in a friendly, small-town atmosphere. You'd expect to travel a hundred miles into rural Kansas to find a place like Mission, but it's only minutes away from all the excitement of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas, and enjoys the safe and friendly residential atmosphere of Johnson County, Kansas.