Ozark Bygones

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Prefabricated houses being transported by rail into Grandin, c. 1900. Photographer unknown.

Yellow pine lumbering in southeast Missouri, c. 1900. Photographer unknown.

Yellow pine logging activities. Photographer and date of photographer unknown.

Harvesting virgin pine forest in southeast Missouri, c. 1900. Photographer unknown.

Missouri Lumber and Mining Company rebuilding a flood damaged bridge over the Current River in Carter County. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Log train of the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company running parallel to Jacks Fork in Shannon County, c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

Fishertown mill of Ozark Land and Lumber Company. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Ozark Land and Lumber Company lumber yard and mill at Fisthertown. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Interior of Fishertown mill. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Some of the 475 houses provided by the Missouri Lumber and Mining Company in Grandin. The houses rented for one dollar per room per month, c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

Doniphan, Missouri, c. 1902. Photographer unknown.

Van Buren, Missouri. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Patriot Band," c. 1890

View of Alley mill hamlet from the cliff above the spring. The roller mill constructed in 1893-1894 is the building in the lower righthand portion of the photograph. A general store is the buidling in the center, and the other buildings are residents houses and outbuildings, c. 1896. Photographer unknown.

Alley store with town-like facade that replace the old store in 1913. The store is painted white with dark green trim, c. 1915. Photographer unknown.

Interior of Alley store with local residents sitting around the
soda fountain, c. 1915. Photographer unknown.

Class photograph of Storys Creek School, Shannon County, 1903. Photographer unknown.

School boy with a lunch pail and book bag. Photographer and date unknown.

Buttin Rock School, Shannon County, 1987.

Lower Park School, Dent County, 1987.

Barn Building at Nichols Farm, Dent County, c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

Birthday gathering at Nichols Farm, c. 1920s? Photographer unknown.

Susie Nichols on horse in front of the Nichols' house. Date of photograph unknown.

Nichols' house restored in the 1980s, 1987.

Nichols' barn and corncrib restored in 1980s, 1987.

Paddle boat of Smalley Tie and Lumber Company that took crews upriver to bring down ties, c. 1920. Photographer unknown.

Tie rafting down the Current River by the Smalley Tie and Lumber Company. Note johnboat on raft, c. 1920. Photographer unknown.

Men loading ties in a shoot with an endless chain to pull them out of the river. The Smalley Tie and Lumber Company shipped approximately 200,000 ties or more each year, c. 1920.

Tie yard of the Smalley Tie and Lumber Company, Chicopee, Missouri, c. 1920. Photographer unknown.

Current River residents hauling logs. Might be from the Nichols farm, c. 1910?

Clubhouse of the Carter County Fishing and Shooting Club. Built in 1888 and destroyed by fire in 1976. Photographer and date of photographer unknown.

Cabin of the Shannon County Hunting and Fishing Club, 1990. Destroyed by fire in 1991.

Group photograph behind Alley mill. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

H. Edmund Knotts Stand at Alley mill Fourth of July picnic, c. 1902-1912. Photographer unknown.

Merry-go-round set up from time to time at Alley, c. 1915. Photographer unknown.

Man on a horse and a child on a mule. Note the quilt tacked to the side of the house. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Steroptican view of river guide in a Johnboat on the Current River below Jacks Fork junction, c. 1908. Photographer unknown.

Crossing the Current River on a ferry at Van Buren, Missouri. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Family with a mule team and wagon crossing Jacks Fork River on a ferry, c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

Crossing the Jacks River near Alley with a horse and wagon team, c. 1925. Photographer unknown.

Model T crossing the Jacks Fork River over a low water bridge near Alley. Photographer unknown.

Early steel structure bridge over the Current River. Built in 1909 and washed away in 1916. It was repaired and used until a new bridge was completed in 1926, c. 1910. Photographer unknown.

Big Spring State Park, Carter County, Missouri. View of Big Spring, 1936. Photographer unknown.

CCC tent camp #1710 at Big Spring State Park. View of the mess hall, c. 1930s. Photographer unknown.

CCC construction of the pump house at Big Spring State Park, c. 1930s. Photographer unknown.

CCC construction of the dining lodge at Big Spring State Park. View of spring branch in the background, 1936. Photographer unknown.

Completed dining lodge at Big Spring State Park, c. 1937. Photographer unknown.

CCC workers planting trees at Alley Spring State Park, Shannon County. Note that the mil in the background has been painted dark red, c. 1933-1934. Photographer unknown.

Round Spring Lodge at Round Spring State Park, Shannon County, c. 1936.

Meal time on a sandbar. Bales Boating and Mercantile Company float trip. Photographer and date of photograph unknown.

Walter Klepzig Mill on Rocky Creek, c. 1912, 1987.

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