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Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish
Musgrave (Marine from Independence, MO) was pretty incredible in his interviews.
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Musgrave is from my immediate neighborhood, where I grew up and still live. But there is no "Fairmount, Missouri." Fairmount is just the name of a general neighborhood. The center is roughly US 24 Highway and Huttig St. in Northwest Independence. Other neighborhoods in Western Independence are Englewood, Maywood, Mount Washington, and to the extreme west side Blue Summit (which we called Dogpatch). When I was a kid, I went to the Fairmount Christian Church. There was a Fairmount Grade School, Fairmount Park. But it's not an incorporated town, it's all Independence.
Musgrave was inducted into the Van Horn High School Hall of Honor this year. There's been many distinguished folks who have graduated from Van Horn. And the school is on a major resurgence now that it's in the Independence School District. Major construction going on now to expand it.