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Centralia, Missouri. Centralia is a city in Boone County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 4,541 at the 2020 census, [4] with an estimated population of 4,244 in 2018. [5] A very small portion of the city lies in Audrain County. The Boone County portion of Centralia (which forms the majority of the city) is part of the Columbia ...
Centralia Massacre. The Centralia Massacre was an incident during the American Civil War in which 24 unarmed U.S. Army soldiers were captured and executed in Centralia, Missouri on September 27, 1864, by a band of men under the command of the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Future outlaw Jesse James was among the ...
38.892283°N 92.344412°W. / 38.892283; -92.344412. Church. This Cemetery is located next to Bethel Baptist Church in south Columbia, Missouri. Founded in 1855, it is the younger of two Bethel Cemeteries in Boone County. The church and cemetery are still active and are currently affiliated with the American Baptist Convention.
NRHP reference No. 79001345 [1] Added to NRHP. July 3, 1979. The Chance House and Gardens is a historic home and garden located at Centralia, Missouri. The house was built in 1904, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling on a raised brick basement. It features a broad verandah and porte cochere. The formal gardens were added in 1937.
Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949) was a businessman and the inventor of the first practical earth anchor. [1] He founded the A.B. Chance Company in 1907 in his hometown of Centralia, Missouri, where he would also become mayor [2] He invented the earth anchor after an ice storm knocked down his parents' company's telephone lines.
Centralia is a borough and near-ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States.It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.Its population declined from 1,000 in 1980 to five residents in 2020 [8] because a coal mine fire has been burning beneath the borough since 1962.
Centralia Township covers an area of 30.6 square miles (79 km 2) and is located in the extreme northeast corner of Boone County. The township contains one incorporated settlement: Centralia. Though the township primarily drains into the Missouri River the extreme northern part drains into the Mississippi River via the Salt River .
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