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A post office called East Prairie has been in operation since 1872. [6] The community took its name from a prairie of the same near the original town site. [7] The current town, which lies about a mile south of the original post office site, was established in 1883 as a stop along the St. Louis Southwestern Railway ("Cotton Belt"), and was originally known as "Hibbard".
Big Oak Tree State Park is a state-owned nature preserve with recreational features encompassing 1,029 acres (416 ha) in East Prairie, Missouri, United States.The state park was established in a large expanse of drained cropland in 1938 to protect some of the largest trees in the state and in the nation. [5]
Hoecake Village Archeological Site is a historic archeological site located near East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. This site was investigated by archaeologists from the University of Missouri during 1963 and 1967. Almost all of the mounds were leveled before the 1960s.
Topix was an American Internet media company. Topix LLC, the controlling company, had its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. [1] Topix began as a news aggregator [2] which categorizes news stories by topic and geography. In the last few years, Topix changed its focus from aggregation and curation, to content creation.
The community was founded in 1792 and is named for Wolf Island in the Mississippi River, which is actually part of Kentucky.According to Missouri folklorist Margot Ford McMillen, the name of both the island and the community stem from the large number of wolves that were present in the area in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Jul. 21—SARCOXIE, Mo. — With purple blazing star swaying in the summer breeze on a recent morning, Jerod Huebner scouted the 68 acres of native tallgrass prairie just southwest of Sarcoxie ...
Route 80's western terminus is at U.S. Route 61/62 near Matthews, which is located midway between Sikeston and New Madrid, with a junction with I-55 located about a mile (1.6 km) to the east. East Prairie is the only other town on the highway. Its eastern terminus is a dead end at the Mississippi River in Belmont.
Elsewhere during her appearance at '90s Con (which marked her first public event in nearly three years), the actress spoke about her time on the Beverly Hills, 90210 spinoff series Melrose Place ...