Olean Baptist Church The missionary Baptists of Olean met on Saturday evening, April 21, 1894 to organize a Baptist Church in Olean. The council consisted of Brethren from Clarksburg, Rock Enon, …
Rocky Mount [Miller County Autogram Bicentennial Salute, 1976] Rocky Mount - Miller County from 1840 to 1918 and Morgan County from 1919 to Present. Although the Rocky Mount post …
The Pumpkin Rise and the Fall of Water Mills By 1905 Miller County had known steamboats for almost fifty years. The railroads had introduced steam locomotives. The old mills remained …
Dr. Ray Watkins Irwin [Excerpts from an article by Wilma Lawson Link] A group of people interested in starting a Miller County Historical Society met at the home of Ray and Edna Irwin …
Citizens Bank of Eldon History From The Eldon Advertiser, 1980 On Dec. 22, 1904, a group of Eldon residents met in a room above the pool hall on Main Street and decided to open a bank with …
Miller County is fortunate to have residents who recall this area in the years before the Bagnell Dam was built. On Valentine's Day one of these treasures celebrates his birthday. He turned 100 …
Elizabeth DeGraffenreid Kingery Scott From Kentucky to Missouri to Arkansas to Texas to the Colorado Territory and to New Mexico, Elizabeth DeGraffenreid Kingery Scott was a testament to the …
[Excerpts from 1915 article by John D. Horner, History Professor at Oregon Agricultural College] Slaves in Missouri were freed on January 11, 1865. Reuben Shipley was freed years …
Snow was always a bittersweet event for those raised on a farm. Sure, you might have a day free from the highly anticipated privilege of school attendance, but the scales were generally …
Fred Hannah’s “Trade Right Store” In 1927, Fred Hannah operated a country store in northeast Richwoods Township and called it "Trade Right". It was located a short distance …
The Path of Friendship: Anton Nixdorf and William Sedgwick. On January 11, 1865, slavery was abolished in Missouri. Two years earlier the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in states …
Football from Iberia to Knox College to Mizzou Iberia’s First Football Game One of the first organized football games ever played in Iberia (and perhaps in Miller County) …
Judge Charles Monroe Abbett, judge of the probate court and ex-officio magistrate of Miller County, died Monday at Still-Hildroth Hospital in Macon where he had been a patient 10 days. Judge …
Letters to Santa over a hundred years ago Letters published in the Eldon Advertiser, Dec. 23, 1920 Dear old Santa: I will drop you a few lines this time as I would love to have a …
Dr. Preston Thompson of Brumley volunteered at the American Hospital in France in 1916, before America entered the war, then was drafted when he returned home. He was the son of Eleven and Alice …
George Monroe Martin, editor and publisher of the Iberia Sentinel, was born at Tavern, Maries County, Missouri, Dec. 5, 1889, a son of James Oliver Martin and Margaret (Rowden) Martin, both of whom …
From a front yard in Eldon to the trenches in France: Many Miller County families celebrated Thanksgiving with their soldiers, home on furlough from training camps in 1917. “Over two hundred …
Two hundred years ago few Easterners had visited the Missouri Territory or the Ozarks. On Nov. 5, 1818, Henry Schoolcraft began a three-month, nine hundred mile journey through the Ozarks. Although …
Eldon Friendly Neighbors Organized November 13, 1942 through the University of Missouri Extension Division. The organization was devoted to programs, accomplishments and service in the interest …
(This information is from the memoirs of election worker Rose Doerhoff Love, donated to the Miller County Historical Society Museum by her daughter Carol Love Braun.) Miller County women entered …