The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗While the Osage tribe inhabited the general region previously, European-American settlement started in the year 1855, when two brothers, Elijah C. and James C. Webb, from Overton County, Tennessee, moved to the area. Mining in the vicinity later caught the attention of Otto Duenweg and his father, Louis, of Terre Haute, Indiana, who in 1895 purchased significant mining interests at the site. The mining camp became known from that time on as Duenweg in their honor. A post office called Duenweg has been in operation since 1895.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Duenweg’s history is told.
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2000
Nothing in Duenweg is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Duenweg has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Lucius P. Buchanan House in Joplin, 3.1 miles away.
Duenweg and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
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