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Carthage is located south of the Spring River along US Route 71. Joplin is approximately twelve miles to the southwest and Neosho is about 17 miles to the south. [15]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.69 square miles (30.28 km 2), of which 11.65 square miles (30.17 km 2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km 2) is water.
The Boots Motel, a historic U.S. Route 66 motor hotel in Carthage, Missouri, opened in 1939 as the Boots Court at 107 S. Garrison Avenue.. It served travellers at the "crossroads of America" (US 66 and U.S. Route 71, the major roads of that era) [3] and was built in streamline moderne and art deco architectural style, its roofline and walls accented in black Carrara glass and green neon. [4]
The Courthouse is built on the site of the original Jasper County Courthouse which was burned in the Battle of Carthage during the American Civil War. Built from 1894 - 1895, the Jasper County Courthouse was designed by architect Max A. Orlopp Jr. in the Romanesque Revival-style and built using local Carthage marble, it is the second most ...
Other notable buildings include the Bank of Carthage, Ben Franklin Store (1920s), Farmers and Drovers Bank / Miller Clothing Company (1875, 1908), Belk-Simpson Building (pre-1884), Carthage Water & Electric Co. (pre-1884), Snyder Building (1901), Drake Hotel (1920), Fire Department (1883), Leggett and Platt (1920), McNerney Block (1905), and ...
Carthage South Historic District is a national historic district located at Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri. The district encompasses 491 contributing buildings in ...
Roughly, Area W and SE of jct of MO A and New Lebanon Loop 38°46′28″N 92°56′21″W / 38.774444°N 92.939167°W / 38.774444; -92.939167 ( New Lebanon Historic New Lebanon
While one James Carter settled in Jasper County in 1841, the land on which Carterville was built was originally owned by his son, James Gilbert Leroy Carter, who created a farm in the 1860’s. [5]
Ravenswood, also known as the Leonard Home, is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Bunceton, Cooper County, Missouri.It was built in 1880, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, eclectic Italianate/Second Empire style brick mansion.