Editing Grain Valley, Missouri (section)

==History==
Grain Valley was founded in the late 1870s.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n74 177]}}</ref> The city was named for the general character of the grain-producing region.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jackson.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070750/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jackson.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=24 June 2016 | title=Jackson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref> A post office called Grain Valley has been in operation since 1879.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jackson | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=16 October 2016}}</ref> Grain Valley was founded primarily by former residents and business owners of [[Pink Hill, Missouri]] who moved to this area after the [[Chicago and Alton Railroad]] built a railway through this area in 1878, bypassing the former community of [[Pink Hill, Missouri]].  The townspeople needed to take advantage of the commerce that the railroad would provide during that era.