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 …
October 31, 1923 - The beginning of a miracle for Miller County, and the end to having one of the largest percentages of trachoma and blindness in Missouri. Trachoma was a communicable disease …
October 5, 1924, was a quiet Sunday. Many from Miller County headed to Jefferson City the next day for the dedication of the new Capitol building. The celebration began with a parade that included …
A mile and a half west of Brumley, near Glaize Creek is Wright, or Brumley, Cave. The entrance is 15 feet high and 40 feet wide. At 20 feet from the mouth the width contracts to 20 feet. The depth is …
The Hawk Family The Hawk family has an interesting history. They were originally members of a small tribe of "light skinned" indigenous Americans located in South Dakota. The tribe migrated and …
The steamer Homer C. Wright by C.B. Wright The steamer Homer C. Wright began her maiden trip from Tuscumbia to Hoecker on March 3, 1920. The boat was loaded with 478 sacks of wheat at Capps …
Vintage look at Olean Olean’s street fairs were recalled by Herbert H. Allee, former Olean resident. The date was September 11, 1909. “Seventy years ago, I was in the first …
Roustabouts Before the Civil War, most of the men who worked on the Osage River steamboats loading and unloading cargo were slaves. These men remained on call for duty day and night, sleeping …
Canning companies were the first factories in many rural communities. Miller County boasted several during the first quarter of the 20th Century. From 1908 through 1915 the Cross Roads Canning …
Pleasant Grove School was built in the early 1900s, at its present location. It was first constructed with logs and a few years later it was remodeled with concrete. The school started on Aug. …