Evolution of Ozark Bridges
Real photo postcard, 1920s, Ozark, Missouri. Wooden covered bridges were never common and very few survive. Iron bridges were abundant…
THE LOST SPRING CREEK MILL AT HURLEY
Water driven mills were a necessity in isolated Ozark valleys. They were a community gathering place and Ozarkers are enormously…
The Battle for Ozarks Identity
John T. Woodruff: progressive president of the Springfield Chamber of Commerce. Woodruff had thousands of copies of “The Ozark Empire…
Springfield’s Sequiota Park, once a Fish Hatchery
In 2011 the Springfield-Greene County Park Board held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the completion of a $1.8 million “facelift…