Powellville is a former town on
U.S. Highway 66, now an outer road of
Interstate 44
Interstate 44 (I-44) is an Interstate Highway in the central United States. Although it is nominally an east–west road as it is even-numbered, it follows a more southwest–northeast alignment. Its western terminus is in Wichita Falls, T ...
in western
Phelps County,
Missouri
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, United States. It is located approximately southwest of
Rolla on a ridge between Tater Hollow to the east and the
Gasconade River
The Gasconade River is about longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 and is located in central and south-central Missouri.
The Gasconade River begins in the O ...
approximately one mile to the west in adjacent
Pulaski County.
[''Dixon, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1954]
Powellville was constructed in the late 1920s or early 1930s, with a small motel to serve the drivers of Powell Brothers Truck Line. They traveled from southwest Missouri to
St. Louis
St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri rivers. In 2020, the city proper had a populatio ...
with freight.
References
Unincorporated communities in Phelps County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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