Will Mayfield College by Clint Lacy The Will Mayfield College stands as a symbol of a once prosperous era for Marble Hill, Missouri. The small town of approximately 1500 people serves as the Bollinger County seat which lies in the Eastern Ozark foothills of Southeast Missouri. “The area that would eventually become known as Marble…
PLATE 1. Confederate Church (Methodist Episcopal Church South) was a safe haven for Confederates during and after the war. A Confederate Church & Jesse James by Clint E. Lacy You might never guess the treasures hidden in your own background. That’s what I learned after buying our house at the corner of Englehart Lane and…
Eastern Ozarks Rendezvous, Glen Allen, MO by Clint Lacy, March 16, 2019 Remarkably I had not been able to attend the first and second Eastern Ozarks Rendezvous event at Barks Plantation in Glen Allen, Missouri, so this year I decided to pay them a visit. The first person I interviewed was “Billy” from Cape Girardeau,…
Original artwork by Curtis Copeland. Impending War by Clint Lacy Cotton was not king in the Ozarks but hard work was. The soil was not suited for farming. If it had been the planters would have bought it up and brought their slaves with them. Planting was done in small clearings. It was no easy…
Bollinger Mill History by Clint Lacy Bollinger Mill is located in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri next to the Whitewater River, six miles west of Jackson, Missouri on Highway 34. Originally established as an Indian trading post by George Bollinger, who in 1797 received a land grant from the Spanish Commandant in St. Louis under the…
Edward O’Kelley by Clint Lacy Nearly every area of Missouri has a Jesse James story. A few years back I found evidence in the Bollinger County archives of an eye-witness who stated that Frank and Jesse James had camped out on the old David Lutes farm about a mile South of Lutesville, the day after their…
The Wonder Woman of the Ozarks by Clint Lacy The inhabitants of the Ozarks have much in common with those who live in Appalachia. Both regions tend to be areas of little opportunity and what opportunities exist involves hard work. Money is hard to come by now, as it was then which brings us to the…