Can you help match names to this group of Webb City businessmen?
From the 3rd floor of the Webb City Public Library Old News Can you help match names to this group of Webb City businessmen? We recently found a nice copy […]
May Aldridge’s photos document the love and pride she had for her hometown
Swimming at Lakeside Park Canoeing under Lakeside’s crowded swinging bridge A mill east of Lakeside Park We’ve struck out trying to identify this bridge The Aldridge home at 505 N. […]
Oronogo Methodists rebuilt after their first building was destroyed by a tornado
Construction of the first Methodist church building in Oronogo was completed in 1872. It was destroyed 11 years later in 1883. From the 3rd floor of the Webb City Public […]
School photo identity challenge accepted
Some detective work determined this photo was likely taken of the second grade class of Eugene Field Elementary in Carthage in 1946. From the 3rd floor of the Webb City […]
Looking back at the early years of Webb City
In the foreground, the Webb City Hotel faces west from the intersection of Webb and Joplin (Broadway) streets. (It’s the site today of the Route 66 Tourist Information Center.) Webb […]
Students continued to be educated at Rising Sun School until 1961
Like kids today, some of these Rising Sun students seem more than ready in 1921 to be let out of school for summer. From the 3rd floor of the Webb […]
Before the Middlewest Hotel, there was Middle West Brewing
Middle West Brewery delivery wagon on West Daugherty Street. From the 3rd floor of the Webb City Public Library Old News Before the Middlewest Hotel, there was Middle West Brewing […]
Tour the world by watching ‘Tourist For a Day’ POV videos
The Internet Archive this week promoted its ‘Tourist For a Day’ series of POV (point-of-view) videos. Sunset Boulevard in 1952 is one of them. Tour the world by watching ‘Tourist […]
Former main bank, now surplus, has been a longstanding Webb City fixture
The Webb City Bank, during the 1916-1917 extreme remodeling. Note the ladies walking past and the sign on the lamp post that reads Webb City Bank. We do not often […]
School days memories
From the 3rd floor of the Webb City Public Library Old News School days memories School days memories Marilyn Clark, vice president of the Webb City Area Genealogical Society, donated […]
