PHELPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

[Phelps County Museum]

This is the Dillon Log House. It houses the Phelps County Museum at 302 Third Street in Rolla.

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The Phelps County Historical Society, Inc., is a Missouri benevolent (not-for-profit) corporation, with federal 501(c)3 tax-exempt status. Contributions and donations are tax-deductible in accordance with IRS regulations.

Dues are $15 per calendar year. General membership meetings, with appropriate programs and refreshments, are held twice each year, in the spring and fall.

GHOST WALK

The Phelps County Historical Society sponsored a fund-raising GHOST WALK on Friday and Saturday evenings, 16-17 October 2009. The walk featured mini-dramas from Phelps County's storied past, presented in the historic district surrounding the Old Courthouse.

2009 -- FALL MEETING -- 2009

The Fall Meeting of the Phelps County Historical Society was held on Sunday afternoon, 11 October 2009, at 2:00p CDT in the Multipurpose Room of the Phelps County Courthouse in Rolla. Lynn Morrow of the Missouri State Archives presented a special program entitled "Gasconade Mills: Daniel Morgan Boone's Piney Woods," or, more popularly styled, "Morgan Boone Slept Here, Too!" We hope you were able to join us for an afternoon of history and fellowship.

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The PCHS sponsors "Christmas at the Courthouse," which is held on the historic square around the Old Courthouse. In 2009 "Christmas at the Courthouse" will be celebrated on Saturday, 5 December, before the Rolla Christmas Parade. The program will include several choral groups, Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus, refreshments, and tours of the Phelps County Museum and the Old Courthouse. We hope that you will be able to join us for a day of good cheer on Courthouse Square.

The PCHS supports the publication of the Newsletter of the Phelps County Historical Society, an occasional journal. Follow this link to a list of articles that have appeared in the journal.

The PCHS owns three historic properties. The Phelps County Museum (Dillon Log House, across the street from the Old Courthouse), the Old Jail (206 Park Street), and the Old Courthouse (305 Third Street) are open for special events and by appointment. The curator is Diane Henke.

Phelps County's other "heritage" organization also has a homepage on The Web. The Phelps County Genealogical Society has an office in the Old Courthouse. There is also a lot of Phelps County history at the University of Missouri/State Historical Society of Missouri Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Rolla. From 1926 to the late 1970s, Phelps County was traversed by historic Route 66.

Updated on 27 October 2009

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