Log City
Log City was a filling station, tourist camp, store, and café on Route 66 in Jasper County, Missouri.
Log City was a filling station, tourist camp, store, and café on Route 66 in Jasper County, Missouri.
In 1932, George B. Morrow, a merchant and farmer from Iberia, Missouri, purchased three and a half acres of land at the western edge of Springfield on West Kearney Street, which had become part of Route 66 through the city.
Inez Parker Griggs was a poet who lived in Rolla, Missouri. The daughter of formerly enslaved individuals, she began publishing her poetry in 1898.
When Wayne E. Powers, a US Army private from Missouri, was arrested for desertion on March 22, 1958, it sparked an international incident in which President Dwight D.
Brock Jones is the retired business manager of the University of Missouri Printing Services and an MU graduate.
Joe G. Dillard is a native Missourian with a strong interest in history; he is a Life Member of the State Historical Society of Missouri.
Father Augustus Tolton, recognized as the first openly African American priest in the United States, was born into slavery in the small community of Brush Creek in Ralls County, Missouri.
Clayton Powell is a graduate student at the University of Chicago. He is from Maryville, Missouri, and attended the University of Missouri in Columbia.
Two convoys of army trucks left St. Louis and Kansas City on September 27, 1920.
Doug Genens is an oral historian at the State Historical Society of Missouri.