Shake-Down Tour

McDonald County Historical Society

by Alberta Anders

If you missed the "shake-down" tour on Saturday you missed a very interesting, informative and entertaining day. Thanks to Frankie Meyer there was much information and scenery shared. This was a small tour, just a taste of what is possible. Having started at the Anderson Train Depot (now city hall) and driving by Beaver Street and home of Dabbs Greer and the Dabbs Greer Old Town Swimming Hole and Old Bell Drug Store they stopped by the Mustang statue at the high school, representing courage, strength, and high ideals of the students of McDonald County. On Mud Springs Road they visited Judy Rickett's museum, they toured the old church in Southwest City, Al Dixon's barber shop and the landscaped yard at the historic Sanders House in Southwest City. The day was beautiful, made to order, as they drove along the historic Jefferson Highway and Ozark Trail and visited Lynn and William Mosby's amazing Ginger Blue Bed and Breakfast. They ended at the Shelt Noel Cemetery east of Noel. Frankie had provided information to surprise, delight and inform and six packed cars journeyed these area with
so much more to be traveled. We had people come all the way from Kansas
City to join and are looking forward to the rest of the tour laid out by Frankie that includes: Pineville, Craig O'Lea, Mack's Big Rock, State Conservation Park, Camp Tilden, Cyclone, Powell and the iron trestle bridge, Powell store and Brumley museum, bee bluff, Beantown, Success Schoolhouse, Longview store, Bethpage, Williams School, Old Stagecoach road. Watch this column and this paper for more information as we complete the tour of the south part of McDonald County and ....the rest of the story.......

We can no longer offer the 2009 calendars, both 2008 and 2009 are sold out and we are working on 2010. We still have copies, however, of "Illustrated History of McDonald County Missouri, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present time." originally printed in 1897, and reprinted for your enjoyment, we have this book Edited and compiled by J. A. Sturges, Attorney at Law, Pineville, Missouri 1897" available for a donation of $25, or $30 if you
want it mailed, as well as several other historical publications. Proceeds

support the Historical Society's preservation projects. Our museum is next

to the U. S. Post Office in Pineville on Harmon Street, and it is open Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
The Museum curator is David Sparlin and with volunteers Dorothy Beauchamp and Roger Crosswhite they make every effort to answer your questions and show you around. Check out our web page at info@mcdonaldcohistory.org and do stop by and see us.