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Then in 1951 the Army purchased 261,000 acres (1,060 km 2) for the Yakima Firing Center, which would become the modern Yakima Training Center. [2] The United States Army identified a need for a large maneuver area in the Pacific Northwest and appointed a board of officers to negotiate with local landowners to lease 160,000 acres in the Yakima area.
Notable buildings include the Springfield Ice and Refrigerator Company (1914, 1927), Armour Creamery Boiler House (c. 1900), Andrew Rebori Company (c. 1900), Crighton Provision Company (c. 1900), and Armour Creamery Cold Storage Warehouse (c. 1910). [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1]
A post office called Galloway was established in 1883, and remained in operation until 1943. [4] The community has the name of a Union Army officer. [5]From 1945 and into the 1950s, the combined U.S. 60 - U.S. 65 highways passed through Galloway at the southeast entrance to Springfield.
In Springfield, Missouri, Gen. Price reorganized the battery for Confederate service as the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery Battery on January 16, 1862. [6] Captain Clark's battery was assigned to the First Missouri Confederate Brigade commanded by Col. Henry Little under Price's division. [7]
The Springfield, Missouri, metropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of five counties in southwestern Missouri, anchored by the city of Springfield, the state's third largest city. [2] Other primary population centers in the metro area include Nixa, Ozark, Republic, Bolivar, Marshfield and Willard.
[3] [4] It is located about 70 miles (110 km) south of the Yakima Training Center, which is used by Joint Base Lewis-McChord for training exercises and about 15 miles (24 km) west of the now closed Umatilla Chemical Depot.
Springfield Police released body cam footage Thursday from the Sept. 30 shooting of a teenager at the Sangamon County Juvenile Detention Center on South Dirksen Parkway.. The six-and-a-half-minute ...
Halfway is a village in Polk County, Missouri, United States. According to the 2010 census , the population of Halfway is 173. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area .