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On August 17, 1897, Pineville was the site of a bank robbery which was one of the few at that time that involved a woman as an active participant in the actual robbery. Cora Hubbard , who was 20 at the time, John Sheets, a 23-year-old from Missouri, and 31-year-old Albert Whitfield "Whit" Tennison robbed the McDonald County Bank, stealing a ...
The plan for the Pineville–Anderson consolidation was approved and the state offered a $50,000 matching grant for the building of a new high school. If the remaining high schools were to have joined, an additional $200,000 in matching grants would have been recurred. The first consolidated class from Pineville and Anderson was the Class of 1966.
Jane was an unincorporated community for many years, but incorporated in 2005 after a petition drive of local residents, in order to block possible annexation by Pineville, 6 miles (10 km) to the northwest. Pineville had greatly expanded its city limits with the opening of the widened US 71 (later named Interstate 49) highway, to its west.
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Eastern terminus of US 50 Bus.; access to the Missouri Veterans Home: 54.170: 87.178 — Route 13 – Clinton, Higginsville: Knob Noster: 60.792: 97.835 — Route 23 / US 50 Bus. – Concordia, Knob Noster, Whiteman Air Force Base: Interchange; western terminus of US 50 Bus.; access to Knob Noster State Park: Washington Township: 62.547: 100. ...
The first courthouse in Pineville, following the official designation of the town as the county seat, was a one-story frame building built in 1858-59. It measured 30 feet square and stood at the corner of Third and Main. [3] The site of that first courthouse would later be a livery stable. [2]
Boeing RB-29A Superfortress, 44-61813, c/n 11290, built as a B-29A-50-MO, modified to F-13A, redesignated RB-29A, Circle X tailcode, of the 31st Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron, damaged by MiG-15s, [65] during touch-down at Johnson Air Base, Japan, lands too hot and with too much nose-down attitude, overshoots runway, ends up in a cabbage ...
The West Plains area is served by U.S. Route 63, which runs along the western and southern edges of the city. U.S. 63 is a four-lane expressway from the 60/63 interchange near Cabool to Route ZZ in the extreme southeastern part of West Plains, then becomes a 2+1 road going southeast. Route 63's path through the city is often colloquially ...