Mystery Solved: NUT Junction

We found this picture was published on May 24, 1957 of floodwaters from the Little River Diversion Channel covering Route N at the junction of Routes U and T between Delta and Leopold.

Here is the caption:

Blocked by high water, Alfred Leggett went to Delta Wednesday [May 22] and during the time the heavy rain swept the district. He was unable to return to his home on Route T east of the Little River Diversion Channel. Here, he points to a gauge reading nearly 4 feet of water on Route N, whose junction with Route T is across the stream in the background. A few hours later the stream was much higher.

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[Two torrential rains May 22 dumped 3.42 inches of water on Cape Girardeau. The next day, a 16-pound carp and 8-pound carp were caught near Capaha Lagoon, washed out from the overflow of the lagoon to the Little League baseball field about 100 yards away at the corner of Broadway and Perry Avenue. The Mississippi River stage was at 30.5 feet and rising.]

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In Missouri, the first lettered highways started appearing on maps in the 1930s as an effort to provide all-weather roads for farmers living too far from the main numbered highways. Letters were chosen to avoid confusion with the existing highway system.

These farm-to-market roads continued to expand over the decades, boosted in 1952 by the "Takeover Program" in which the state highway department agreed to take over 12,000 miles of former county roads and assign them letters. Missouri had an ambitious goal: bring state roads within two miles of 95 percent of all rural homes, schools, churches, cemeteries and stores. (Only one other state, Wisconsin, has a system like it.)

Mystery Solved

We found the story behind a previous mystery photo of apple butter making.

We also found the photo of city crews collecting leaves was published Nov. 8, 1960.