Sarcoxie Public Square Historic District is a national

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located at

Sarcoxie Sarcoxie is a city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,406 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Sarcoxie was platted in the early 1830s, and it was originally ...

Jasper County, Missouri Jasper County is located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 122,761. Its county seat is Carthage, and its largest city is Joplin. The county was organized in 1841 and named for ...

. The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the

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of Sarcoxie. It developed between about 1890 and 1965 and includes representative examples of commercial style architecture. Notable contributing resources include the Public Square and Gazebo (c. 1840, 1904); Sarcoxie Record (1889), Sarcoxie City Hall (c. 1900-1908), Sarcoxie Police (c. 1900), Parmley Garage (1910-1911), Sarcoxie Public Library (c. 1900), and Gene Taylor Library & Museum (c. 1894). (includes 11 photographs from 2014) It was listed on the

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in 2015.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Buildings and structures in Jasper County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Jasper County, Missouri {{JasperCountyMO-NRHP-stub