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Henry Clay Frick (December 19, 1849 – December 2, 1919) was an American industrialist, financier, and art patron.He founded the H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company and played a major role in the formation of the giant U.S. Steel manufacturing concern.
Walter Klepzig Mill and Farm is a historic farm and sawmill and national historic district located in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways near Eminence, Shannon County, Missouri. The district encompasses three contributing buildings, three contributing sites, and one contributing structure associated with an early-20th century Ozark farm and mill.
Other notable buildings include the City Hall (1910), Sentinel Building (1867-1871), Clifford Banking Company (c. 1887), La Crosse Lumber Company (1923), Presbyterian Church, Methodist Church (1906), Masonic Temple (1903), and Clarksville Public Library (1910). [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]
The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company (MLM) was a large timber corporation with headquarters and primary operations in southeast Missouri.The company was formed by Pennsylvania lumbermen who were eager to exploit the untapped timber resources of the Missouri Ozarks to supply lumber, primarily used in construction, to meet the demand of U.S. westward expansion.
Portable sawmills are sawmills small enough to be moved easily and set up in the field. They have existed for over 100 years but grew in popularity in the United States starting in the 1970s, when the 1973 oil crisis and the back-to-the-land movement had led to renewed interest in small woodlots and in self-sufficiency .
Fredericktown is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Missouri, United States, [5] in the northeastern foothills of the St. Francois Mountains.The population was 4,429 at the 2020 census, [6] up from 3,985 in 2010.
Phelps Country Estate is a historic estate developed between about 1900 and 1904 and located near Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri.The main house is a large two-story, eclectic Late Victorian style dwelling constructed of locally quarried Carthage marble.
Barlow is an extinct town in Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community was on the railroad line along the east bank of the Black River between Leeper to the northwest and Williamsville to the southeast.