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Cuba is home to the Crawford County History Museum. [20] The Veterans Memorial, with almost 1000 names of veterans, sits in front of the museum on Smith Street. Four miles west of Cuba on Route 66 is the World's Largest Rocking Chair (former). [21] The chair is 42' high and draws many Route 66 travelers to take photos.
Nunnelly is an unincorporated community in Hickman County, Tennessee, United States. Nunnelly is located at the junction of state routes 48 and 230, 5.6 miles (9.0 km) north of Centerville. [2] Nunnelly has a post office, with ZIP code 37137. [3] [4]
Loyalties were heavily mixed and both the Union and Confederate armies recruited heavily in the town and surrounding area. Federal troops occupied Canton in July, 1861 to quell recent unrest and quash recruiting for the Missouri State Guard and pro-Confederate guerrillas by Lewis county residents Martin E. Green, Joseph C. Porter and others. On ...
John Wood Brooks is further remembered by the names of four Brookfield streets: John, Wood, Brooks, and Boston streets. [5] A post office called Brookfield has been in operation since 1860. [6] Brookfield was located along the first railroad built across the State of Missouri, completed by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad on February 13 ...
In 1915, the Missouri Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument near Woodlawn Street in Sikeston to mark this event. [27] In 1929, the Sikeston portion of the street was paved. Today this road is known as U.S. Route 61. The city has a few cobble-stoned streets in its older commercial downtown area.
Other Native American tribes in the area were the Sac and Fox, and Pottawatomi, all of whom hunted in the area. [5] In the early 19th century, European-American migration to Missouri increased. The original survey of Chillicothe by United States citizens was filed for record August 31, 1837, and a resurvey of the same was filed August 5, 1859. [6]
Laclede County Courthouse. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.72 square miles (38.12 km 2), of which 14.63 square miles (37.89 km 2) is land and 0.09 square miles (0.23 km 2) is water. [10] Lebanon is along I-44, and Routes 5, 32, and 64 as well as the historic Route 66.
Strafford is a city in eastern Greene County, with a small portion extending into western Webster County, Missouri, United States. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's population was 2,561 at the 2020 census. [4]