Needed! Experts on McDonald County History.

Needed! Experts on McDonald County History.

A. At what site can you put one foot in Dixie and one foot out?
B. What is the name of the native pine trees?
C. Where is the county museum located?
D. What road do you take to get to the Chinquapin Walking Trail that has rare birds and plants?E. Where is the iron trestle bridge that will be converted to a walking bridge in the future?
F. Who is the most outstanding gospel songwriter of the century, and where did he live?
G. What town was named by a mule trader after a place in Arkansas where he previously lived?
H. At what site can you wrap your arms around a monument and be in three states at the same time?
I. Where can you find a gravestone that is so large a steam engine was needed to deliver it to the cemetery?
J. What town still has a sidewalk that has iron rings where people once tied up their horses?
K. Beaver Springs was the first name of what town?
L. The first courthouse (a log building) has been moved to what town and restored?
M. Volunteers at what post office stamp thousands of cards for out-of-state people during Christmas?
N. Name the wealthy Indian who paid three million dollars to extend the railroad tracks south from Joplin to McDonald County.

If you can answer most of these questions, we need your help!
The McDonald County Historical Society is sponsoring a “planning” tour of the county on Saturday, May 23. This tour will be used to collect information and suggestions from people who are familiar with historic and scenic sites in the county. That information will be used to develop a brochure that has driving loops that visitors and residents alike can use to enjoy the interesting sites in our beautiful county.

The completed brochure will also be used to organize an annual tour of the county. At the annual tour, residents and businesses in each region of the county will be able to showcase their areas.
Those who help at the planning tour will be given a packet that contains maps with proposed driving loops, a list of sites to see, and some information about those sites. The packet will also have questions to answer. Participants are encouraged to bring digital cameras. Photos for the fall brochure will be selected from those taken during the planning tour. Suggestions on additional sites and driving loops will be appreciated.

Participants are asked to bring beverages and a sack lunch. The planning tour will start at 10 a.m. at the brick depot at 119 W. Main in Anderson. Carpooling is encouraged. The tour will include sites in the areas around Anderson, Lanagan, Noel, Southwest City, Pineville and Powell.
Due to time restraints, the northern half of the county will not be included in the tour. That area will be included in another planning tour later this summer.

Advance registration (before May 19) is needed so that an adequate number of packets will be available. To pre-register, call the McDonald County Chamber of Commerce at 223-8888 or e-mail fjmeyer@4state.com.

Answers:
a. Southwest City
b. Short-leaf Pine
c. Pineville
d. Pineville Road
e. Powell
f. Albert Brumley and Powell
g. Rocky Comfort
h. Southwest City
i. Indian Springs
j. Southwest City
k. Anderson
l. Pineville
m. Noel
n. Mathias Splitlog