Maitland is a city in Holt County, Missouri, United States.

[6] The town is named after John Skirving Maitland, who was a surveyor for the Nodaway Valley Railroad (the construction company for the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad) that arrived in Maitland in 1880 when its superintendent, John Fisk Barnard, purchased the land for the town from John S. and Delila Swope.

One of the farmers from Maitland was David Ward King, inventor and promoter of the King road drag—an invention that essentially was two logs lashed together and dragged behind horse or mule teams that was an effective and inexpensive method to grade dirt roads.

[8] In the first half of the 20th century, Maitland claimed to have the largest bluegrass seed producing farm in the world.

[9] In some years, Weller would get permission to pile up bumper crops of seed on the city streets.

During the harvest time in late June/early July, the town hosted a Bluegrass festival.

Bluegrass seed production in the late 1950s/early 1960s moved to farming communities in Idaho, Oregon and Washington.

In 1975 the Maitland Community Betterment Association celebrated the bluegrass stripping heritage with the slogan, "Home of the Strippers.

"[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.30 square miles (0.78 km2), all land.

[14] Eleanor Sue Wright Owens (Author) 1935- David Ward King (Farmer and Inventor) 1857-1920