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The settlement was originally known as Big Prairie because of its location on the natural prairie of that name in the area. In 1859, when a man by the name of John Wood anticipated the extension of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, the settlement became known for a short time as Scioto, named after the town of Scioto, Ohio, where many of the town's early settlers originated.
Maramec Spring is located on the Meramec River near St. James in the east-central Ozarks of Missouri. The fifth largest spring in the state with an average discharge of 153 cubic feet (4.3 m 3) of water per second, it is part of a Karst topographical area, with many springs and caves.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Phelps County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [1]
Interstate 44 (I-44) in the US state of Missouri runs northeast from the Oklahoma state line near Joplin to I-70 in Downtown St. Louis. It runs for about 293 miles (472 km) in the state, and is the longest Interstate Highway in the state.
US 50 east – Saint Louis: Southern terminus of US 50 concurrency: Cole: Schubert: 178.755: 287.678: Route M / Route J – Taos, Osage City: Access to Clark's Hill/Norton State Historic Site: Jefferson City: 180.576: 290.609: Militia Drive: Access to the Missouri National Guard Armory and the Missouri Military Museum: 183.088: 294.652: McCarty ...
Cuba, Missouri, known as Route 66 Mural City, has art and sculpture throughout the town and along the Route 66 corridor. [5] Its restaurants are a frequent stop for Route 66 travelers. A major grape growing area between St. James and Sullivan includes many wineries. The highway passed near Meramec Caverns in Stanton, which was formerly a famous ...
In Missouri, only counties of the third and fourth classes, which are those with a total assessed valuation under $450,000,000, may have township governments, but are not required to. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As of 2021, 20 of the 114 Missouri counties had township governments, containing 285 townships. [ 1 ]
St. James Chapel, also known as the St. James United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist chapel located at St. James, Phelps County, Missouri. It was built in 1868, and is a one-story red brick building with Gothic Revival and Romanesque Revival style design elements. It measures 40 feet by 60 feet, and has a gable roof.