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NEWSLETTER OF THE PHELPS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

 

Published by the

Phelps County Historical Society

P. O. Box 1861

Rolla, Missouri  65402

 

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Issue Contents

 

Vol. 1, No. 1  (March 1982 Local place names

[6 pages]

 

Vol. 1, No. 2  (June 1982) Notes by Margaret Beulah Fraizer

Rolla and the Civil War

[9 pages]

 

Vol. 1, No. 3  (September 1982) Sightseeing in the St. James Area

Two Civil War Letters From Rolla

Items from Licking

Origin of Place Name “Jerome”

[8 pages]

 

Vol. II, No. 1  (February 1983) Henry Carroll Civil War Letters

History of Alpha Kappa House

More on the Naming of Rolla

George Coppedge and His Whereabouts

[17 pages]

 

Vol. II, No. 2  (May 1983) More on Naming of Rolla

[9 pages]

 

Vol. II, No. 3  (September 1983) Fort Dette In Rolla

George W. Kohler Civil War Letters

Naming of Doolittle, Mo.

[14 pages]

 

Vol. II, No. 4  (December 1983) Origin of Name “Toad Suck,” Ark.

[5 pages]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vol. III, No. 1  (March 1984) “Secure the Shadow”: Civil War

    Photographers in Phelps County

Rolla and Missouri Place Names

Self-Guided Tour Map of Rolla

[10 pages]

 

Vol. III, No. 2  (May 1984) Pulaski County Author Mabel Mottaz

[4 pages]

 

Vol. III, No. 3-4  (September 1984) Naming of Rolla

[41 pages]

 

Vol. IV, No. 1-2  (January 1985) The Parker Hall Mural

Winter Quarters at Camp Rolla

Missouri Place Names

[21 pages]

 

Vol. IV, No. 3-4  (May 1985) John Webber Stories

More Missouri Place Names

Samuel A. Strawhun

More on Fort Dette

Rolla’s Frisco Depot

[18 pages]

 

Vol. V, No. 1-2  (April 1986) Newburg’s Lead and Zinc Mining Boom

Naming of the North-South Road in Rolla

[14 pages]

 

Vol. V, No. 3-4  (October 1986) The Civil War Letters of Lorenzo B. Hickok

  [brother of “Wild Bill” Hickok]

[16 pages]

 

Vol. VI, No. 1-2  (March 1987) Historical Areas In Phelps County

Frisco Steam Locomotive 1501

East German Spies in Rolla

[22 pages]

 

Vol. VI, No. 3  (June 1987) Union or Disunion: The Letters

  of Allen B. Johnson

[34 pages]

 

Vol. VI, No. 4  (September 1987) History of John Webber and the Webber Family

[42 pages]

 

Vol. VII, No. 1  (April 1988) Obituary of Walter W. Snelson

Elkins Chapel Methodist Church

[9 pages]

 

Vol. VII, No. 2  (June 1988) The Civil War Letters of Capt. Alfred B. Cree

   22nd Iowa Infantry

[34 pages]

 

 

 

 

 

Vol. VIII, No. 1  (June 1989) The First Phelps County Jail, 1860-1912

Freedmen’s Schools For Rolla

[10 pages]

 

 

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New Series No. 1  (March 1990) Building of the Phelps County Courthouse

Extracts From County Court Minutes

Proposals to Build a New Phelps County

   Courthouse

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 2  (September 1990) The Railroad Comes to Phelps County

[16 pages]

 

New Series No. 3  (June 1991) The Founding of Newburg, 1882-1885

[11 pages]

 

New Series No. 4  (December 1991) The “Frisco” In Phelps County

[11 pages]

 

New Series No. 5  (April 1992) “Bushwhacker” Bill Wilson and “Secesh”

   Sympathizers During the Civil War

[12 pages]

 

New Series No. 6  (October 1992) Summers Past in Phelps County

[12 pages]

 

New Series No. 7  (April 1993) Russell Brothers Circus: Winter Quarters,

   Rolla, Mo.

[34 pages]

 

New Series No. 8  (October 1993) The Early Years of Route 66

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 9  (April 1994) Route 66 East to West: A Self-Guided Tour

   Through Phelps County

[28 pages]

 

New Series No. 10  (October 1994) “Hunting Bushwhackers for a Living”: The

   Second Wisconsin Cavalry In the

   District of Rolla, 1863-1864

[16 pages]

 

New Series No. 11  (April 1995) Phelps County During World War Two

[14 pages]

 

 

New Series No. 12  (October 1995) Phelps County in the Late 1940s

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 13  (April 1996) Basketville: A Roadside Community on Route 66

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 14  (October 1996) The Fraizer Wagon Story

[16 pages]

 

New Series No. 15  (April 1997) From Knobview to Rosati

[12 pages]

 

New Series No. 16  (October 1997) The Ozark Short Line: Electric Railway from Rolla

   to Texas County

[12 pages]

 

New Series No. 17  (April 1998) Bluebacks, Graybacks, and Greenbacks: Excerpts

   From the Maramec Iron Works Time Books,

   1865-1870

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 18  (October 1998) The Arlington Hearth: St. Louisans, Perry Andres,

   and Commercial Tourism

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 19  (April 1999) The Civil War Letters of Moses Jasper Bradford,

   Phelps County Confederate and One of

   the “Immortal 600”

[22 pages]

 

New Series No. 20  (October 1999) Before Bass Pro: Gasconade River Sporting Clubs

[38 pages]

 

New Series No. 21  (April 2000) Growing Up in Jerome

[16 pages]

 

New Series No. 22  (October 2000) The Civil War Letters of Captain Douglas R.

   Bushnell, 13th Illinois Infantry

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 23  (April 2001) Phelps County’s Only Hanging: The Crime,

   Trials, and Execution of George Bohannon

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 24  (October 2001) Taking the Waters: Mineral Spring Developments

   at Vichy Springs and Rolla in the 1880s

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 25  (April 2002) Atlantic City In Phelps County:  The Gasconade

   River Resorts at Arlington and Jerome

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 26  (October 2002) Personal Memoirs of a Missouri Confederate

    Soldier, by David F. Lenox

[26 pages]

 

New Series No. 27  (April 2003) Provost Marshal Documents from the District of

    Rolla

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 28  (October 2003) Greetings from Edgar Springs

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 29  (April 2004) Spring Creek and the Springdale Academy Quilt

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 30  (October 2004) Honorable Frank Farris: “Making a Bad Idea Look

  Good, and a Good One Better”

[28 pages]

 

New Series No. 31  (April 2005) Tie-Hackers, Tie-Rafting, and the Railroad

   Crosstie Industry at Arlington and Jerome

[18 pages]

 

New Series No. 32  (October 2005) Stories That Didn’t Get Away: The

Interviews by Dr. Clair V. and Bonita H.

Mann

[22 pages]

 

New Series No. 33  (April 2006) The Ozark/Knotwell Furnace and the Last Iron

   Made in Phelps County

[14 pages]

 

New Series No. 34  (October 2006) Nagogami Lodge on the Gasconade River

[12 pages]

 

New Series No. 35  (April 2007) The News in 1907

[20 pages]

 

New Series No. 36  (October 2007) Pearl of the Little Piney Valley: Newburg through

 World War One

[24 pages]

 

New Series No. 37  (April 2008) The Fourth Iowa Infantry at Rolla: Letters to the Council Bluffs, Iowa Nonpareil

[32 pages]

 

New Series No. 38  (October 2008) Saint James: A Goodly Town, and Fair to Look Upon

[20 pages]

 

New Series No. 39  (April 2009) Home Away from Home: the U. S. O. at Rolla, Missouri

[20 pages]