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Missouri Ghost Towns

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Charles B

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O.K. for you guys in Missouri that like to do some of your own research I'm going to "show you" where to get started. This site will show you many of the states ghost towns. Do me a favor....if you've been to some of these places post some photos or send them to me...I haven't been to your great state yet.

If you need information on a certain county....just ask and I'll post it immediately.

:beers:
Cheers,
H.Charles Beil
Treasure Writer
 
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Times Beach, Missouri

Founded in 1925, Times Beach, Missouri was evacuated less than 60 years later when it became the scene of the worst civilian exposure to dioxin in the United States. Plagued by dust problems, the city of Times Beach employed a local contractor to spray waste oil on unpaved roads to reduce dust levels. Unbeknownst to them, some of the waste came from a facility producing Agent Orange for the Vietnam War and contained high levels of the toxic environmental pollutant dioxin. Panic gripped the town by 1982 with illness and animal deaths attributed to the toxin. The disaster was exacerbated by major flooding the same year, and the town was evacuated in 1985. The site of Times Beach is now Route 66 State Park.
 
ADAIR, ADAIR COUNTY, MISSOURI

The village of Adair is fifteen miles distant from Kirksville, nine miles north of Brashear and 203 miles northwest of St. Louis. The population in 1880 was 90. Adair was surveyed and platted by Thomas J. Dockery, for Michael C. & Mary E. Cody, in April, 1879. The business circle in 1888 composed Dr. J.M. Moran, druggist and physician, Clark Brothers, merchants, James Gillespie, general merchant; Poncelot & Co. saw mill. The post office was in the charge of D.W. Clark. The mail connection with Brashear was semi weekly. (History of Adair County, 1888, Goodspeed, p. 371.)

It is situated on on Highway 11 west of Knox County line.
(General Highway Map of Adair County, issued 4-1-66 by the State Highway Department of Missouri. Unless otherwise noted all map locations are from this map.)

The post office was discontinued pre-1905.
(General Scheme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, p. 3.)

Mail now via Brashear; population 25.
(Standard Reference Guide of Missouri, 1974, Rand McNally.)

There is a large frame Catholic church there.
(All the above contributed by Jim Peeler 04/15/2003)

The location of this rural community is on SH 11, in Clay Twp, 13 miles east-northeast of Kirksville and a mile west of the county line. (GBS)

Sec. 20, T63N, R13W
Latitude 40
 
BEATYVILLE

Beatyville was situated on Sec. 3 & 4, T63N, R15W in Polk Township.
(New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, Campbell, Map 14.)
 
BRASHEAR

The settlement of Brashears dates back to the fall of 1841, when William G. Brashear and his wife Rosa (Wood) Brashears settled near the site of the village of 1872...There was not a store at Kirksville or Edina, and very few log cabins on the route from Kirksville to Edina...

In December, 1865, the first effort was made to secure a post office in the Salt River District, near the Brashear farm. Brashear was surveyed and platted, by N. Wilson, for Richard M. Brashear, in 1872, and the record of survey filed December 26, of that year. The location is on the northwest quarter of Section 26, Township 62, Range 13...

Among the first business buildings were Elliott & Paul's hay press, Kellar & Hill's saw and grist mill, McCrary & Brothers and Barnhorst & Cornell, dry goods; a blacksmith shop, drug store, United Brethren Church, and a railroad depot with Agent Kerr in charge. (History of Adair County, 1888, Goodspeed, pp. 363, 364.)

It is twelve miles east of Kirksville, on the Q. M. & P. R. R. and was laid out in 1872 by Richard Brashears, in honor of whom it is named. It contained about 6 stores, a saw and gristmill, a grain warehouse, hay press, schoolhouse, and a United Brethren church. It is about two miles southeast of the old site of Paullville, which has principally moved to Brashears ...

Population about 200 (1874).

It is situated on Sec 21, T62N, R13W Salt River Township.
(New Atlas of Missouri, Campbell, 1874, Map 14.)

It is on Highway 6 west of Knox County line at an elevation of 870
 
BULLION

Bullion was situated on Sec. 17, T62N, R14W on the Burlington Railroad north of (Highway) 6 on (Highway F.). The post office was discontinued pre-1905.
(General Scheme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, p. 3.)

No visible remains
(All the above contributed by Jim Peeler 04/15/2003)

Lat 40
 
BURTVILLE

This rural community is located near Knob Noster.
Exact location not determined.
Is there anybody in this area that knows about this town?
 
CABINS of the WHITE FOLKS

As near as tradition can fix, the date of the first settlement is 1828, when a number of whites settled near the present site of Kirksville, and the little colony became known to the Indians as the "Cabins of the White Folks". There is little known of the members of this colony, whence they came or whither they went. It is generally thought that they came from Kentucky...
(Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 1901, Conard, Vol. 1, 6.)

A settlement known to the older portions of Howard and Randolph County as the "Cabins of White Folks," was made near the present site of Kirksville in 1828. The little colony had been established about a year, when they were visited by a considerable body of the Iowa Indians, who insulted the women and committed many depredations. The pioneers becoming alarmed, dispatched messengers to Randolph County for aid. The messengers reached the house of Wm. Blackwell on the night of July 24, 1839, and before many hours the news of the attack had spread through the settlement and by the next evening a company under command of Mr. Trammell marched to the "Grand Narrows" now in Macon County, so called from a peculiar opening in the timber bordering the prairie. Here they camped for the night, and the next day marched to the "Cabins", a distance of 44 miles. At a council on the morning of the 27th, they determined to order the Indians to leave. They marched ten miles, and formed a line in the rear of the Indian encampment and called for an interpreter. As the Indians appeared, a Mr. Myer, who lived at the "Cabins", recognized an Indian who had insulted his wife and shot him dead.

A small Indian War then broke out, and the Indians were rapidly driven north of the State boundary. This comparatively small affair was one of the incidents leading to the Black Hawk War.
(Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri, 1874, 33, 34.)
 
CLAY, Adair County, Missouri

Clay is situated on Sec 33, T73N, R14W on Highway 22 east of Kirksville.
Mail via Kirksville; no population. (Rand McNally, 1974.)
 
CONNELLSVILLE, Adair County, Missouri

It is situated in the northwest section of the county nine and one half mile south of Schuyler County line. (The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams, p. 317.)

It is situated on Sec 9, T63N, R16W on Highway 149 north of Novinger.

Mail via Novinger (disincorporated in 1950). (Rand McNally, 1974.)

Houses remain
 
COTTONWOOD, Adair County, Missouri

Was located on the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad a short distance east of Stahl. It was a construction camp. No remains.
 
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Adair County, Missouri

Crawfordsville was platted by Thomas J. Docking, for Allen Crawford, July 1, 1880. The location on the southeast quarter of Sec 5, Twp. 63, Range 17, northeast of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific Railroad, shows Main Street and Oaks Avenue running northeast; North, Green and Garfield Streets intersecting.
(History of Adair County, 1888, Goodspeed, 373.)

This area is west of Stahl and east of Sullivan County line. It is no longer listed in Adair County; Crawford is listed in Scotland County. (Rand McNally, 1974.)

This was also a construction camp on >>the QM&P RR.

No remains.
 
DANFORTH, Adair County, Missouri

Danforth was platted by Surveyor Dockery, November 7, 1869, for George and Elizabeth Shott on the southeast quarter of Section 19, Township 63, Range 16. This was one of the modern post office towns of the county.
(History of Adair County, 1888, Goodspeed, pp. 372, 373.)

It was on O northwest of Novinger.

The post office was discontinued pre 1905.
(General Scheme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, for the use of Railway Mail Clerks, 3.)

No remains except a clay tile school house

Latitude: 40
 
DART, Adair County, Missouri

Dart was on the south edge of the county, near Macon County.
(The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams, p. 317.)
(Jim Peeler 04/15/2003)

Lat 40
 
FEGLEY, Adair County, Missouri

Fegley was located in the northwest section of the county on R. F. D. from Kirksville.
(The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams, p. 317.)

It was east of Stahl. (Map of Missouri, 1911, Rand McNally.)

Remains of an old store here

Lat 40
 
FLOYD CREEK POST OFFICE, Adair County, Missouri

Floyd Creek post office was moved to the house of Edgar Tiffany in September, 1869, and became known as Summit post office.
(History of Adair County, 1888, Goodspeed, p. 374.)

It was situated on Sec 13, T73N, R15W in Polk Township.
(New Atlas of Missouri, Campbell, 1874, Map 14.)
 
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