https://www.kxcv.org/tags/road-conditions road conditions en-US Copyright Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:14:26 GMT https://www.kxcv.org/regional-news/2026-04-29/irish-immigrants-carved-kansas-citys-roads-out-from-limestone-sculpting-the-city-of-today Bluffs up to 120 feet tall once hugged the Missouri River by Kansas City, making it difficult to traverse the landscape and expand the growing town. So in the mid-1800s, a Catholic priest named Father Bernard Donnelly recruited hundreds of Irish immigrants for a dangerous but critical task: digging streets for the city from rocks and mud. Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:14:26 GMT https://www.kxcv.org/regional-news/2026-04-29/irish-immigrants-carved-kansas-citys-roads-out-from-limestone-sculpting-the-city-of-today