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yymy -y Tuny 1 I Its istopy Coiiitj-bj-Coinitj Surtcj Latest Project to Preserve State's Heritage in ta Tin i- 3 Past in i Pi. By Ll'CILE MORRIS t'PTON Marker at Frisco Station (or Col. Torrey resideni-e and ranch, A STATE-WIDE eliort 1 ti nrfPrvP Missouri's historical heritage for gen flrttWIl ty-by-county site survey is progressing under di- rection Of the Missouri State Historical Society. First list of the sites, as re- leased Dy Dr. noya c- inoeman- er, secretary of the Society, is in- complete.

Some counties have not reported and many of them have liUI lUIMUtilCU II1CU lull llL, The early report also does not attempt to evaluate the suggest- ed sites as to importance, but it does indicate great possibili- ties of a valuable record for the a I seemingly are-'unknown outside uyun puur iu ihc omiiic ui son's Creek; Homesite of "John S. Phelps, congressman. Missouri governor i iu ii t0 1 1 I 1 in ii J(gii I I 1 Vi 5 4T i One of the picturesque Ozarks mills listed with the Missouri State Historical Society as an interesting historical site is the Dawt Mill (above) in Ozark County on the North Fork of White River just above Norfork Lake. It was built in about 1897. JhisJltlle postoffice, listed as a site of historical interest in Stone County, looks today much as it did around 35 years ago when this picture nas taken.

Standing in front of it above was the famous postmaster, Levi Morrill, known to readers of "Shepherd of the HiuV bv Harold Bell Wright, as "Uncle Ike." postmaster at "The Forks." He died in 1926, a few months after this picture was taken. The postal department knew the office as Notch. The old structure Is near Marvel Cave between Reeds Spring and Branson. i markers, either by the state soci- ety or the local communities. Mrs.

Dorothv Caldwell, staff member i UI llie, MMICiy, IS III charge "of compiling the list. In Greene County co -chairmen of the site committee are Dr. Harold J. Retallick of jSouthwest 1 Ir-TT Lee Hoover, president of the county Historical Society. Assist- ants in making the list were Dr.

C. Benton Manley. Marvin E. Tong. and Sherman Lee Pompey.

lreeiie On the Greene County list are these sites, including a few recent- ly added to the official list: Caldwell family cabin east UI OUdllUlU, UUUl 111 1004 Ci IS. 1 I Ml moi. Roy Stinnet log cabin at Ford- land to be rebuilt on Evangel College Campus: Wilsons Creek Battlefield; National Cemetery, including the Confederate Cemetery; itiman Duune nome near Asn Grove the last home of Daniel uiue, ine lasi nome oi uaniei Boone's youngest son; Site of the Battle of Jan. 8. 1863; Campell in Springfield, built in 1830.

near which a marker was in retaining wall of Missouri Pacific Railroad track on Water near Robbcrson; Site of first classical academy Southwest; taught by John A. Stephens in 1842, marker for which; now is in wall surrounding Trave- Lodge Motel at Olive and Short Benton; Marked site of First Baptist Church in Greene County, north-side College Street, between Campbell and Main; Marked site of first church in Greene County on National east of Silver Springs Park; Marked site of Kickapoo Indian, Village. 829 South Street; World War I memorial marker in Grant Beach Park; Marked site ol house mounds on Drury Campus; ineir inimetuuie coiiiniuiiuy. Eventually many of the unmark- ed sites will be given historical truitviiie. Jasper Peac-e -Church CemetcryT Carter's Spring; Clubhouse of Webb City Athle-tic Association: First lead deposit discovery between Webb City and Carterville; Powerhouse of Southwest Mis- MXlvi Railway Company.

Webb Qty. springs School- F- rountv courthouse- Jasper County courthouse; Kendrick House, Carthage; Memorial Hall. Carthage; Site of Battle of Carthage, the main battle being at Carter's Park and skirmish sites, at Buck 0nuluff and D'7 vm. Lueled iiUll 111 Home of Richard P. Bland.

senator who became famous in -dVocaline eaual coinage of LV i'i Home of Phil Donnelly, now Ibanon attorney, formerly twice governor of Missouri; 'Homc- of Miles Vernon near Highway 5, Lebanon; Old school, Lebanon." I'l'IKUr Paris Spring near Halltown, where a fashionable resort hotel was once located; Red Mill. Verona; Site of early Sunday Verona k' Central House, former school now clubbhouse. in Pierce City; Harold Bell library in Pierce City Marked site of Fort Ancient (also, called Old Spanish Fort) n.i nedr f1. McDonald Bluff Dwellers' Cave near Noel; Havenhurst Mill at Pineville; 1 Courthouse at Pineville; Indian Springs, a. ghost town, sue 01 Mcmau; 11 nnonrfiep in nnntv- cDrfnCr a' Tri-State Marker at Southwest O.ark Wonder Cave at Elk Springs.

New Ion Mansion House and-the site of the Newtoira Battle, at Newlonia; Jolly Mill: Searritt Instilutc Building; Granby Mines; Herman Jaeger vineyard site east of Neosho; George Washington Carver Na- tional Monument near Diamond. Oregon William- Hodges Home at Al- ton; Greer Spring and Mill near Al ton; Thomasville; Oregon County Jail in Alton; Irish Wilderness; Site of Oregon County court house burned during Civil War. Ozark Rockbridge Mill; Dawt Mill; Aid-Hodcrson Mill; Zanoni Mill. Itoll.l Phelps county scat of Phelps county: Missouri School of iIines, Holla: Site of For. Wyman.

Civil War Fortress, Rolla; Site of Fort-Detlc. Civil War The Edmund WardJBjsh(iphian- sion. Rolla; Maramec Spring and Iron Works, Maramec Spring; Soldiers' Home, St. James; Rosati, the' Knob View settle- ment; The James Harrison, homesite, Arlington- John Duncan homesite; Robert Duncan (Isaac Neeley Bradford) home; i Taney Meeting Place of Bald Knobbers; Bonnie Brook site, home of Rose HtistoiTTtoiui, ing-licld llimd: River Port and Murder Rocks near of ('apt. Nut N.

Kinney, lender of Bald -Knobber, Swan Cemetery, Forsyth; Site of courthouse in old For- J. H. Pillman Home iWaymnni llomc.Souh Spring Creek; Coppedge Spring. Newburg: Saltpetre Coe on Tick Creek; Knntu'itll The old jail at Holla Adam Bradford homesite at Spring, Pulaski fix il War For at WayneMille; Miller Cave; Muxcy Cave i Inca Cavei; Pippin Place 'near Wayhe.sville; Miller Spring north of Big seven miles California House west of Waynesville. Shannon Enforces i 7 D3 Springfield, March 13, 1960 15 if1 i 1 1 4 i i cnarge 01 uen.

rremoni wxiy- cl, led by Maj. Charles Zag- onyi. Oct. 25. 1861: Marked si(e of tauht Joseph the first in lhe west of the Missouri Paci- He Railroad on Mt.

-Vernon street: Marked site of first school in apnngneia pioneer seuiemem, bi- so taught by Rountree. northwest corner of College and Main. Site of first cabin in Spring- AM lAhit ITnllirf In 1ICIU, VUlll IV iiuiut UIWlllll, iui which marker is in retaining wall in 1200 block College Street: Corum lead mines south of Ash Grove; Little York, the campground of Springfield with Gen. Nathaniel i. II I i and Civil War officer, in Phelps Grove Park; Danforth homesite.

the house a k. a nuw inriug uniivu iif llic fcldini- daughter of the builder, Mrs. Daisy Okino. atjhe site of a set lement which almost became the Greene County-seat. rkTIIER SOUTHWEST Missouri counties with the historical sjtcs thus far listed with the state Historical Society are: lSaiTV Hawthorne Hill, southeast ot Monett; Dave Courdein Home, Monett: Waldcnsian Presbyterian Church SOUj, of Mone(t.

Reuben Boothe" HomerMonett; RM1.rv m.mtv murthnnw din whinh was hiipflv Ha CniifpHprntA ranil, Mineral Springs; Roaring River Mill site; Smith Sta(ion on the BuUerfield Overland Stage line; Uarhin-c iRi.ttoMi u. near Washburn; Crouch.s (Blllterfieldl Station northeast of Caville- norineasi ot cassviiie. Harry" Truman birthplace shrine in Lamar; Liberal early" sites; Geoi-ge Ward home and grave of George Ward's daughters. Cainden Campground Church; Climax Springs Hold; Sidney Crain Roach monument near Camdenton; Bridal Ozark Caverns. Cedar Home of C.

W. Hoff, Stockton; Site of Williams Mill, first in Cedar County; site of Cedar Church, first church and school in county; nome 0f Col. J. J. Gravely, Civil War officer, congressman and lieutenant governor of Mis- souri, Stockton; Crow's Mill near Stockton; Tennessee Hotel near Stockton.

Dade Comet Mill near Everfon; Evertonrri RnilfliniT loft ct-inillnn vuiiuiii, ilii niill was buined during Civil War; Site of Seybert Water Ilulston Water Mill which still oeiates; Site of old fortifications north- west of Greenfield; William Penn Cabin, used as first Dade County courthouse, now in park at Everton; Sinner's Union Church near Neo- i. ia, Corry Mines site west of Dade-ville; Papinsville Road; riuinAr DrAch.lnpi.m fl juciictci i iouiiciiuii limilll at ueemiea' Site of antebellum courthouse, Greenfield, also of courthouse Civil War; Pleasant Grove church and cemetery near Neola; Site of Buzzard Roost School and Union Church near Neola; Hickory Grove Church and Cemetery at Areola. Dent Maledy Farmstead; Bradford Home at Lake Spring. Douglas Trappist Cistercian Abbey, Route 5, Ava Mount Zion School, Route 1, Ava. Baclielor's Hope mine near Pittsburg; Bone Spring, near Avery; Butterficld Stage stop at Quin- cy: Yoast's BuUerfield Stage stop south of Elkton; Peterson Mine east of Hermitage; Hickory County Jail.

Howell Site of Swiss colony near Brandsville; Evergreen Cemetery, 7V4 miles south i of West Plains; Col. Jay Li Torry Collection Jn West Plains Library; fc Ruins of Old Wisch and Old Brand wine cellars in Brandsville; Grave and memorial bench dedicated to Mrs. Alice Carey Ris- ley, CM1 War'nursc. ln Oak Lawn a Powder Mill east of Eminence WcllStCF Boiler and Lumber Company, Emin- Eilwin PoweU Hubble birthplace enoe. in Marshfield; Site of first' courthouse near Fort Sands Spring site northwest Round Spring: of Marshfield; Winona Library of Hazel wood near Sey- sue oi nrst store soumwest Home of Dr.

John W. Conna-Missouri, marker for which is on wav near Stockton- a tor? a Si: Vernon Site of first Vernon County court- hoti.se; Main Hall. Cottey College; Site of John Brown Raid; William Joel Stone monument in Nevada; Site of Fori Carondelct. Wrisht Mountain Grove Civil War skirmish site: Battle of Hartville; Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Mountain Grove; Missouri jjt site Poultry Expert-r Hartville, courthouse and town: wilder and Rose. Wilder Lane home east of Mans- field: Smitlle Cave near Grovesprina; (Jiii.v Town near Mountain (Jrovc; Robinctt homesite and farm; Pleasant Hill Baptist church; Swedish settlement between Mountain Grove and Norwood; Jonathan Hickman home west of Hartville; Mount Moriah Presbyterian camp meeting site north of ville; Pleasant Valley Presbyterian camp meeting site northwest of Mansfield." I- i r-iUl 1 P'risco Building at Olive and Jef ferson; Site of Henry Schoolcraft's 1819 camp on the James River, marked east of Springfield near Pier-son Creek Mines Ma.seu sic seucmeni in (jreene lounty at Patterson Spring: Marked site of first iwst office in county west side of South Jef-lerson near East Walnut; Marked site of first grist mill near northwest corner of old Ozark bridge near Galloway; Marked site of first religious service in county, about 15 miles east of city near Division Street a.

ilUdU, Marker in foundation of Barth Building on Boonville near the public square to indicate stop of A joi i old Nicholas Smith Hotel. (An- old Nicholas Smith Hotel. (An other marker to indicate route of entrance of BuUerfield stages into the city is near Zoo Park on Highway 13.) t-W rtiSsM.7 vVSrA V. Wilson's Creek most granite slab Lyon was killed. become a Battlefield, considered by many as southwest Missouri's important historical site, is marked only by the above, which is at the site where Gen.

Nathaniel There now are great hopes the battlefield will national park. Below is the log cabin home of Walter William Penn in which met the first Dade County court. It then as on Pennsylvania Prairie near Pennsboro but now stands in Dye Park at Evertou. Penn was a grand-nephew of the man for whom' the state' of Pennsylvania was named. The cabin was built in 1837.

A Webster County historical site, seven juiles northwest of Marshfield, was the locution of a pioneer settlement and Civil War fortification known as Springs. In the picture below, Mrs. Perry Harden stands beside the little pump house built over one of the springs, which is on the farm owned by her and her husband. Across the highway Is another Sand Spring, so named because the water seems to bubble up out of sand. The Old Wire Koud from Rolla into Springfield followed the present road hHween the two springs.

Alley Spring Mill in Alley Spring State Park: Smelter site of lost Slater Copper Mine near Eminence. Ston Site of last official public hang in Missouri in Galena; r'M fjfist and burial grounl near Shell Knob MalK'i ry Ferry on Wilderness Road; Treasure country of libels" Spring; First" tiuiiDowdvr mill west of Mississippi notir Cape. Fair; ike's Postoffice near Mar- vel Cave and Reeds Spring: Wash Gibbs Museum near Bran- son, Ponce de Leon near Abesville; Missouri Pacific Railroad Tun- nel near Reeds Spring; BulterfieldnOverland Mail sta- tion in Stone County; Lynch Pine Camp Grounds. Mail trace Road; fv4 a mm mm a nrz i -m a ft VZS XSM, i. -if i I- Mil V' Cv ir Doanc Ranch and Judy's Mus- -''V4-- 1-eum, 20 miles northwest of West v-' T'i-'' Plains; Olden Residence, West PJains; t..