The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Forest City was platted on May 16, 1857, with later additions being filed in 1868. The city was named from the dense forest near the original the town site. A post office called Forest City has been in operation since 1857. The town was incorporated in 1861 and has also been spelled 'Forrest'.
Forest City was originally a significant trading post on the Missouri River but in the 1868 Missouri River flood, the river rerouted to the west. At its peak, 13 steamboats were moored in the docks.
City Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The BNSF railroad still runs trains daily through Forest City on the Napier Subdivision.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Forest’s history is told.
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1 historic place in Forest
1 place in Forest is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.