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R         Linn Creek Community Club.

1059                Pamphlet, 1926.

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This is a promotional pamphlet issued by the Linn Creek Community Club to encourage economic development in Linn Creek and Camden County, Missouri.

 

In 1926 Linn Creek was the seat of Camden County and enjoyed commercial prominence on the Osage River.  This pamphlet described the community and Camden County as the “gate­way” between northern Missouri and the Ozarks, with a “truly American population,” although some residents “may be unlearned and meanly clad.”  The countryside was ideal for dairying, sheep raising, fruit culture, and poultry farming.  There was also a “recent great revival of mining interest,” based mainly upon lead and zinc ores.  The Osage River and its tributaries provided op­portunities for recreation, and “thousands of tourists throng our streets.”

 

Although the pamphlet trumpeted a “proposed great inland system of waterways,” there was no awareness of the activity that would within five years create Bagnell Dam and its associ­ated Lake of the Ozarks, flooding most of Linn Creek and forcing the county seat to be removed to the nearby new town of Camdenton.

 

 

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