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List Of Ghost Towns In Missouri
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Missouri. * Amply * Ark * Arlington * Bloodland * Columbia / St. Vrain * Cookville * Defiance (Worth County) * Doolittle * Georgia City * Hamburg * Holman * Hopewell (Daviess County) * Hopewell (Mississippi County) * Hopewell Furnace * Howell * Lakeside * Lakeside Estate * Lone Tree * Melva * Monark Springs * Phenix * Plew * Possum Trot * Rueter * Saint Annie * St. Andre’ Del Misuri * Spencer * Times Beach * Toonerville * Wayman * Wakenda * Wila * Xenia Hamburg, Howell, and Toonerville were all located in St. Charles County. All three towns became part of the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works in 1941 for WWII, which later became part of the Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project (WSSRAP)) Notes and references {{Lists of ghost towns by U.S. state Missouri Ghost towns Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * ''Ghost Town'' (1936 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Towns
Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * ''Ghost Town'' (1956 film), an American Western film by Allen H. Miner * ''Ghost Town'' (1988 film), an American horror film by Richard McCarthy (as Richard Governor) * ''Ghost Town'' (2008 film), an American fantasy comedy film by David Koepp * ''Ghost Town'', a 2008 TV film featuring Billy Drago * ''Derek Acorah's Ghost Towns'', a 2005–2006 British paranormal reality television series * "Ghost Town" (''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation''), a 2009 TV episode Literature * ''Ghost Town'' (''Lucky Luke'') or ''La Ville fantôme'', a 1965 ''Lucky Luke'' comic *''Ghost Town'', a Beacon Street Girls novel by Annie Bryant *''Ghost Town'', a 1998 novel by Robert Coover *''Ghosttown'', a 2007 novel by Douglas Anne Munson Music * Ghost Town (band), an American electronic band * ''Ghost Town'', a 1939 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howell, Missouri
Howell is an unincorporated community in St. Charles County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Much of the community has been annexed by St. Peters. History A post office called Howell was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1917. The community has the name of Francis Howell, a local educator. Jazz pianists Ralph Sutton Ralph Earl Sutton (November 4, 1922 – December 30, 2001) was an American jazz pianist born in Hamburg, Missouri. He was a stride pianist in the tradition of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. Biography Sutton was born in Hamburg, Missouri, ... and Barbara Sutton Curtis were from Howell. ''Ukiah Daily Journal'' (January 1, 1999): 5. via Newspapers.com, accessed December 29, 2019.
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Toonerville, Missouri
Toonerville is an unincorporated community in St. Charles County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. History Toonerville has its start as a roadside gas station whose owner included the image of a popular comic in his sign. The community was named after ''Toonerville Folks'', a comic strip. In the 1930s, Weldon Spring was isolated from the greater St. Louis area due to the Missouri River. Three towns: Hamburg, Howell, and Toonerville, were connections to the outside world as the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroads had stops in Hamburg. Southern St. Charles county gained direct access to the St. Louis area because of the completion of the Daniel Boone Bridge in 1937. Locals had intended this project to increase opportunities for the county, however it gave the U.S. Army an area in rural Missouri, to develop weapons for the anticipated WWII. Before the attacks on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army wanted to utilize an isolated spot to develop explosive weapons such as TNT and DNT explosive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Times Beach, Missouri
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, southwest of St. Louis and east of Eureka. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD—also known as dioxin—contamination. It was the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States. In 1985, the State of Missouri officially disincorporated the city of Times Beach. The site of Times Beach now houses a state park commemorating U.S. Route 66—the famous highway that stretched from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, and passed by the community on its southern end—as well as the history of the Times Beach area. The park opened in 1999. In 2001, the EPA removed Times Beach from its Superfund list. History Times Beach was founded in 1925 on the flood plain of the Meramec River, southwest of the river, in a promotion by the now-defunct ''St. Louis Star-Times'' newspaper. A purchase of a 20 × 100 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spencer, Missouri
Spencer is a small unincorporated crossroads in eastern Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. It lies along former U.S. Route 66 U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) was one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The h ... (now a county road) approximately six miles (10 km) west of Halltown. A post office called Spencer was established in 1868, and remained in operation until 1907. The community was named after a local merchant. Spencer is best known foSpencer Station a series of joined buildings consisting of a historic Phillips 66 service station & garage, a diner, a barbershop and a general store. The general store was built in 1926 while the service station was built in 1927. In 1928, the 2 separate building were connected with the barber shop and diner. References Unincorporated communities in Law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Annie, Missouri
Saint Annie was an unincorporated community in northeast Laclede County, Missouri, United States. The community was on Missouri Route U about one mile west of the Laclede- Texas county line approximately five miles north of Lynchburg. The community of Winnipeg is about two miles to the northwest. History The oldest records place the unincorporated community of Saint Annie in southwest Pulaski County close to the Texas County line, Township 34 Range 12. This was in the southern portion of the Roubidoux township of Pulaski County. The community was only one mile south of Cookville. A post office at Saint Annie was established in 1867 with George Hume as postmaster. It is suggested that it was named after a diminutive expression for Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna by Missouri Mexican War veterans. The post office was later moved to Laclede County, west of the fort, but retained the name. By the 1890s the Saint Annie community had both a school and a church. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rueter, Missouri
Rueter is an extinct town in southeastern Taney County, Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The town site is located at western intersection of U.S. Route 160 and Route 125. Rueter is part of the Branson, Missouri Branson is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city is situated in Taney County, with a small portion in the west extending into Stone County. Branson is in the Ozark Mountains. The community was named after Reuben Branson, postma ... Micropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Rueter was established in 1906. A variant spelling was "Reuter". One Mr. Reuter, an early postmaster, gave the community his last name. References Ghost towns in Missouri Former populated places in Taney County, Missouri {{TaneyCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Possum Trot, Missouri
Possum Trot is a former town in northeastern Stone County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately 5.5 miles (8.85 km) southwest of Nixa on Missouri Route M A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in additi ....''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2007, Third edition, p. 62, Only the remains of a school named Fairview and a house are left. Fairview was a one-room school which had grades 1 through 8 and was locally called Possum Trot School. The general store at Possum Trot was operated by the descendants of Jackson B. and Emma Stewart Wilson, William Jasper Wilson, and his brother John Washington Wilson during the early part of the 20th century. Part of the community was once known as Self. References Unincorporated communities in Stone County, Miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plew, Missouri
Plew (also spelled Plu) is a small unincorporated area, unincorporated community in western Lawrence County, Missouri, Lawrence County, Missouri, United States. Plew is located on former U.S. Route 66 in Missouri, U.S. Route 66, now Route 96 (Missouri), Route 96. A post office called Plew was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1904. It is unknown why the name Plew was applied to this community. References Unincorporated communities in Lawrence County, Missouri Populated places established in the 1890s Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{LawrenceCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phenix, Missouri
Phenix is an unincorporated community in northwest Greene County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on the banks of Sugar Creek, approximately 2.5 miles south of Walnut Grove and 1.5 miles west of Harold and Missouri Route 123. History During the railroad boom of the late 1800s the Kansas City, Clinton, and Springfield Rail Co. forged their way through the wilderness between Ash Grove and Walnut Grove, their repeated dynamite blasting revealed deposits of high quality limestone in 1884. A post office called Phenix was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1942. In 1888, this discovery prompted Kansas City investor, C.R. Hunt, to establish a small limestone mining operation. For nearly two decades, Hunt ran the quarry as the Phenix Stone and Lime Company. By 1905, W.J. Grant, a marble finisher from Milwaukee recognized the high quality of Phenix limestone and purchased an interest into Hunts company. This operation grew over the years, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monark Springs, Missouri
Monark Springs is a ghost town in Newton County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately five miles east of Neosho. The site is on the north bank of Hickory Creek about 1.5 miles east of U.S. Route 60. The spring associated with the town is located within the Hickory Creek floodplain approximately 500 feet to the southeast. History Founded by Truman Elmore, the town was named after the Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, resulting in the name, MoNArk Springs. In August 1956, an outbreak of typhoid fever occurred in Monark Springs during a national Church of God camp meeting that had over 400 members from other states as far west as California and east to Kentucky, attending. The cases continued to spread outside of the town after the meeting, with 16 reported cases cropping up in various parts of Missouri and Kansas. CDC The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the National public health institutes, national public health agency of the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melva, Missouri
Melva is an extinct town in southern Taney County, in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The site was located south of Hollister on the east bank of Turkey Creek along the Missouri Pacific Railroad. On March 11, 1920, the town was destroyed by a deadly tornado that killed 11 people, including 9 children. Some of the remains of Melva, mostly foundations of homes, remain on the site today. A post office called Melva was established in 1906, and remained in operation until 1931. A railroad official gave the community the name of his daughter. Gale Wade Galeard Lee Wade (January 20, 1929 – January 16, 2022) was an American baseball player who was a center fielder in Major League Baseball, playing for the Chicago Cubs in the 1955 and 1956 seasons. Life and career Wade was originally signed as ... (1929-2022), baseball player, was born in Melva. References Ghost towns in Missouri Former populated places in Taney County, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
