Strawberry Hill (Kansas City, Kansas)
Strawberry Hill is a historic neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. It is bordered by Minnesota Avenue to its north, by Interstate 70 to its east and south, and by 7th Street to its west. History Strawberry Hill was previously known as Splitlog Hill, named after Mathias Splitlog, a wealthy Wyandotte Indian mill owner who purchased the area in 1870 with the goal of building a manor. He later sold parcels of the land to the Catholic parish and to nearby railroad companies. After the land was subdivided in the late 1800s, the neighborhood began to fill in, first with Irish and German immigrants, and then by Croatian and Slovene immigrants from the Primorje-Gorski Kotar and Karlovac areas. Most Strawberry Hill residents at the turn of the 20th Century worked in the meat-packing industry, whose factories and lots were in close proximity to the neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas's side of West Bottoms. Between 1900 and 1913, Strawberry Hill had significant growth with a new wave of Slavs emigrating from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, and Russia. During this time, many new churches were founded. St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish was founded in 1900, Holy Family Catholic Parish was founded