You may have paid to see gussied-up variations of the quaint town of Marceline, Missouri. The community of about 2,500, two hours northeast of metro Kansas City, was the hometown and emotional ...

If you love Disney themed parks, then you may have come across gussied-up variations of the quaint town of Marceline, Missouri. The community of about 2,500, two hours northeast of Kansas City ...

Kansas Avenue, also known as Main Street, runs through the heart of tiny Marceline in northern Missouri. But it’s also known as Main Street, U.S.A. Why? Because Marceline, sleepy now ...

and the quaint shopfronts along Marceline's main thoroughfare, Kansas Avenue, would later be reimagined as an idyllic version of small-town America through the candy-colored façades of Main ...

If Walt Disney planted roots while in Marceline, he blossomed while working in Kansas City. “Certainly today the Walt Disney Company is the most powerful entertainment conglomerate, especially ...

Forever after, he thought of Marceline as his idyllic “Happy Place.” Four years later, Walt’s parents sold the farm and uprooted the family to Kansas City. But in 1956, Walt came back to ...