- -30- then and now (8/22/18)2
- Meet Mable at Mable's Cafe in Chaffee (8/20/18)
- Willow Grove Rockets Skate Club (8/15/18)
- Central Municipal Pool built in 1979 (8/13/18)
- Hecht's Store founder returns to Main street (8/8/18)
- Land acquired to build SEMO Port (8/6/18)
- St. Vincent's Seminary ends after 136 years (8/1/18)1
Indian Creek School is shown in this undated photo by G.D. Fronabarger. The school became part of the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District when the new school opened in 1960. Other schools included Juden, Brooks, Coker, Egypt Mills and Iona.
From The State Historical Society of Missouri:
Place name: | Indian Creek |
Description: | A large creek flowing east through southern Shawnee Township into the Mississippi River. Called Table River, Riviere Table, or The Devil's Tea Table in 1797 when Cornelius Arent settled here. Table River was named from a projection of rock resembling a table on the southern side of the creek. It was pointed out as the Devil's Tea Table by rivermen. The rock is now blasted away. Called Indian Creek since 1800 for the Shawnee Indians who had villages here. (Douglass I 79, 178, Houck I 213, II 191, Putz) |
Source: | Hamlett, Mayme L. "Place Names Of Six Southeast Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1938. |
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