OZARK Historic Resource Study

¹Missouri Argus (St. Louis), 29 May 1840; and Harbert L. Clendenen, "Settlement Morphology of the Southern Courtois Hills, Missouri, 1820-1840," (Ph.D. diss., Louisiana State University, 1973), 143.

²James Lee Murphy, "A History of the Southeastern Ozark Region of Missouri," (Ph.D. diss., Saint Louis University, 1982), 117-120; Leslie G. Hill, "History of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company, 1880-1909," (Ph.D. diss., University of Missouri, 1949), 14-15; and Paul W. Gates, "The Railroads of Missouri, 1850-1870," Missouri Historical Review, XXVI (January 1932): 139.

³Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 121; and Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 15-16.

⁴Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 123-124,

⁵Ibid., 117-124; and Flanders "Regional History," 218-226.

⁶Missouri State Gazetteer (St. Louis: Sutherland & McEvoy, 1860), 221, 442; and Missouri State Gazetteer (St. Louis: R. L. Polk Company, 1876-1877), 378-379, 600-601.

⁷U. S. Census, Department of the Interior, Compendium of the Tenth Census, 1880, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1883), 359-360; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 134-138.

⁸Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1876-1877, (St. Louis: R. L. Polk & Company, 1876), 92, 110, 177, 191, 201, 371, 391, 396, and 615; Missouri State Gazetteer, 1860, 754, The 1860 Gazetteer also listed a post office at "old" Eminence. The archeological investigations mentioned in a previous chapter identified two structures once existing at the site. The post office was in a nearby home.

⁹Missouri State Gazetteer, 1876-1877, 92, 110, 177, 191, 201, 371, 391, 396, and 615; Missouri State Gazetteer, 1860, 754; Edith Chilton, "The Current Wave," in History of Shannon County Missouri 1986, (Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1986), 42; Flanders, "Regional History," 254.

¹⁰Missouri State Gazetteer, 1876-1877, 641; The Current Local, 1 July 1915. As of 1989, The Current Local continues to be Van Buren's newspaper.

¹¹R. A. Campbell, ed., Gazetteer of Missouri, (St. Louis: R. A. Campbell, Publisher, 1874).

¹²Missouri State Gazetteer, 1876-1877, 167-168.

¹³Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 88, 129; David Lewis, "Shannon County Grist Mills," The Ozarker, (March-April, 1981): 15-16.

¹⁴Campbell, Gazetteer of Missouri.

¹⁵Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 128-131. The region defined here by Murphy includes Carter, Dent, Oregon, Reynolds, Ripley, Shannon, and Wayne counties, Missouri. If Butler County (and its seat, Poplar Bluff) were included in the region, then seven more mills and 13,280,000 board feet of lumber would be added to the 1880 totals.

¹⁶Ibid,, 129-132.

¹⁷Ibid,, 132-133. The agricultural developments will be looked at more closely in chapter seven and eight.

¹⁸Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 142, 147; and Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 5.

¹⁹Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 147-149, 152.

²⁰Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 9-10; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 152-153; and Flanders, "Regional History," 226-227.

²¹Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 13; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 153; and Flanders, "Regional History," 228.

²²Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 14, 20.

²³Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 18; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 153-154. Stumpage equals the cost of standing timber per 1,000 estimated board feet of lumber. In other words, stumpage is the price of raw timber from which 1,000 board feet of lumber could be produced.

²⁴Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 25-27; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 154-155; and Flanders, "Regional History," 229.

²⁵Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 28.

²⁶Ibid,, 27.

²⁷Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 30-33; The town of Hunter was named after one of the officials of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company. The contract with the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Memphis Railroad required that the lumber company layout and then turn over half interest in the town to the railroad for one dollar. Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 156; and Flanders, "Regional History," 229-230.

²⁸Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 33-34; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 156; and Flanders, "Regional History," 230; Flanders noted that St. Joe Lead spent $275,000 on a new mill and furnace at Bone Terre in 1884.

²⁹Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 37, 237-238; Flanders, "Regional History," 230; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 156; and Gene Oakley, The Deserted Village: History of Grandin, Missouri Home of the World's Largest Lumber Producer in 1900, 1968, 18.

³⁰Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 186; and Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 238.

³¹Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 36, 142-143; Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 174; Flanders, "Regional History," 230-231; and Jefferson City Tribune, 20 June 1888.

³²Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 157, 173.

³³Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 37, 46-47; and Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 180.

³⁴Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 47-48, 51.

³⁵Ibid., 51.

³⁶Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 157-158, 175-176; Flanders, "Regional History," 231; and Velma Allmon, "Winona," in History of Shannon County Missouri 1986, (Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company in association with Friends of the Shannon County Libraries, Eminence Missouri, 1986), 11-12.

³⁷Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 157-158.

³⁸Ibid., 176-177.

³⁹Ibid., 177; and Flanders, "Regional History," 234.

⁴⁰Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 198-199; and Hill, "History of Missouri Lumber," 210.

⁴¹Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 200; and The Current Local, 12 December 1907.

⁴²Murphy, "Southeastern Ozark Region," 205-207.

⁴³Flanders, "Regional History," 240-243; Carl O. Sauer, The Geography of the Ozark Highland of Missouri (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1920), 212.

⁴⁴Sauer, Geography of the Ozark Highlands, 145, 211-212; and Flanders, "Regional History," 243.

⁴⁵Sauer, Geography of the Ozark Highlands, 214.

⁴⁶Arthur Paul Moser, "A Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present of Carter County," Place Name File in Current River Regional Library, Van Buren, Missouri, n.d,, 17; G. Oakley, The History of Carter County (Van Buren, Mo.: J. G. Publications, 1970), 128-131.