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Maitland is a city in Holt County, Missouri, that was platted on May 12, 1880, when the railroad arrived in the area.

Maitland was named after John Skirving Maitland, a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad whose superintendent, John Fisk Barnard, bought the townsite land from John S. and Delila Swope.

Maitland once billed itself as the 'Bluegrass Mecca' - in the first half of the 20th century it claimed to have the largest bluegrass seed producing farm in the world.

Maitland farmer John Q. Weller claimed his farm produced 10,000,000 pounds of bluegrass seed, more than the harvested seed output of the entire state of Kentucky, and in bumper years he got permission to pile seed harvests on the city streets.

Maitland hosted a Bluegrass festival each year during the late June and early July harvest until bluegrass seed production moved west to Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Maitland was the home of David Ward King, inventor of the King Road Drag - a simple horse-drawn log device that was the forerunner of the modern road grader and helped make rural roads passable year-round, enabling rural mail delivery and the spread of the automobile.

Maitland celebrated its bluegrass stripping heritage in 1975 with the memorable slogan 'Home of the Strippers.'

Maitland had 276 residents at the 2020 census, down from 343 people in 144 households in 2010 and a peak of 805 residents in 1900.

Maitland covers just 0.30 square miles, with the Nodaway River forming its eastern edge and its sister town of Graham sitting just across the river in Nodaway County.

Maitland's children attend the Nodaway-Holt R-VII School District, which keeps an elementary school in Maitland while its high school and district headquarters are in Graham.