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December 6 Butler Railroad Depot Credit State Historical Society Of Missouri Jpg E1701718392257

Missouri History Today December 6, 1881: Butler Illuminates Missouri’s Electrical Future

Copy Of Perry Veterans Wall 2 By Pam Clifton

We searched every corner of Missouri for hidden gems—fascinating but sometimes overlooked places that are worth the drive. Where will this southeast Missouri hidden gems road trip, with places suggested by Missouri Life ambassadors, take you?

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It was certainly a desire to ride through the state’s green and rolling-hill countryside in summertime that attracted us. Maybe there was a pain component, too, that was curiously, if a little perversely, compelling—confronting the dreaded beast that is humidity in Missouri’s hottest months. 

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Landlords in Butler, Pemiscot, New Madrid, and Dunklin counties evicted hundreds of sharecroppers (black and white) who then moved their possessions onto the roadways of Highways 60 and 61.

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Butler County was formed on this date.