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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Independence, Missouri. Official Website Independence is the county seat of Jackson County . It is known as the "Queen City of the Trails" because it was a point of departure for the California Trail, Oregon Trail , and Santa Fe Trail . Independence was also the hometown of President Harry Truman ; the Truman Presidential Library an...