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Camp Mintahama

I can still picture waking up on a morning in early summer, spending the whole night before packing and triple checking my checklist to make sure I had all the things I would need on the adventure...

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Olivia Apartments

Olivia Apartments Hotel In 1906 a building permit was issued in Joplin for the “Olivia Apartment Hotel” for $150,000. The genius behind one of the first luxury apartments in the Joplin...

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Hailey School House

In November 1884 the plot of land that would in time become home of the Hailey School house was purchased by William McKinney and Newton L. & Nancy Hailey. Nancy (McKinnley) Hailey was the...

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson Elementary School

Emerson Elementary School began (and ended) as a neighborhood school built in 1930. It was almost visually identical to Columbia Elementary, Alcott Elementary, West Central Elementary, and the...

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Belmont Casket Factory

While not much written documentation of the Belmont Casket Factory in Crane Missouri, what is documented paints a pretty interesting story. Built prior to the 1960s, the Belmont Casket Factory was...

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Goodman Jail

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Gallery Below of Goodman Jail

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Hall Theater

Cassville Community Building When I first heard and laid eyes on this building, it was unfortunately at the end of its lifetime. Our Photojournalist Billy Wade is oftentimes very intertwined in...

Union Depot - Joplin

Union Depot – Joplin

The Union Depot of Joplin was designed by prominent Kansas City architect Louis Curtiss. The construction of the larger than most train station began in April of 1910 and took a little over a year to...

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Ku Klux Klan Cave – Neosho

The Ku Klux Klan was created as a result of the Civil War and the loss of the Confederate soldiers to keep slavery in the southern states. Formed originally as a “social club” it quickly...

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Stone School of Noel

Traveling along a bendy highway, lucious trees on one side, a wide river on the other. As you pass by a small opening in the foliage to reveal atop a grassy hill a lone stone building. The roof has...

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