A history of Neosho,
since 1829
Postcards, papers and photographs of Neosho from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Starting in the late 1820s, European-American settlers of English, Scottish, German, Welsh, and Scots-Irish ancestry began moving into the area. The first of these settlers was Lunsford Oliver, who migrated from Tennessee in 1829 and located near Shoal Creek. He was the namesake for Oliver's Prairie. His nearest neighbors were in Springfield, sixty miles to the east. In 1831 he was joined by Nathaniel Turner, John Smith, Joseph Ross, Campbell Pure, Blake Wilson, Levi Lee, Carmac Ratcliffe, and George McInturf. McInturf built a corn mill, the first mill of any kind in the region. Soon afterward came Mathew H. Ritchie, who founded the town of Newtonia near Oliver's Prairie, and John W. McCord, who settled near Walbridge Spring with Levie Lee and founded the town Neosho twelve miles (19 km) to the west. In these years, the region was called "Six Bulls", a colloquial reference to "six boil…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Neosho’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNewton County, Missouri. Camp Cro…, 1941: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Neosho
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Neosho, decade by decade
1990s
6 historic places in Neosho
Neosho has 6 listings on the National Register, and they protect 43 historic buildings, because Neosho Commercial Historic District alone counts 34.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Newton County, Missouri. Camp Crowder area. Trailer camp for construction workers on the outskirts of Neosho, Missouri (1941) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.