Missouri Trivia & Tidbits
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For more than 80 years, the family-owned Ozark Fisheries, in Stoutland (pop. 177), has produced and shipped goldfish throughout the United States. The company developed and patented the Golfipak-a cardboard box that holds a sealed plastic bag filled with water, fish and oxygen-to ship fish.
first appeared: 3/7/2010
Ice skater Rockne Brubaker, born in 1986 in St. Louis, is the 2008 and 2009 U.S. figure skating champion pair skater with partner Keauna McLaughlin.
first appeared: 2/21/2010
When the state highway commission left Noel (pop. 1,480), a popular tourist destination in McDonald County (pop. 21,681), off its Family Vacationland map in 1961, residents drew up secession papers and declared themselves the independent McDonald Territory. They elected officials, formed a territorial militia and printed territorial stamps.
first appeared: 2/7/2010
The 1,490-acre Painted Rock Conservation Area, near Westphalia (pop. 320), shows evidence of American Indian occupation as far back as 9,000 years ago. A burial cairn, built between 500 and 1,500 years ago, is visible.
first appeared: 1/24/2010
In 2002, George Wayne Russell of De Soto (pop. 6,375) hauled in a 139-pound, 4-ounce paddlefish, still a state record, from Table Rock Lake near Branson (pop. 6,050).
first appeared: 1/10/2010
The world's largest rocking chair is the Route 66 Rocker, built of wood and steel, which stands more than 42 feet tall at the Fanning US 66 Outpost and General Store near Cuba (pop. 3,230).
first appeared: 12/27/2009
The state's youngest governor was Christopher "Kit" Bond, who was 33 when he was sworn into office in 1973.
first appeared: 12/13/2009
Built in 1834, the J. Huston Tavern in Arrow Rock (pop. 79) is the oldest continuously operating restaurant west of the Mississippi River. The tavern once served travelers along the Santa Fe Trail.
first appeared: 11/29/2009
Ollie Harbin, 81, of Lee's Summit (pop. 70,700), became the oldest woman to bowl a perfect 300 score in a sanctioned game last July, according to the United States Bowling Congress.
first appeared: 11/15/2009
In the early 1900s, Clark Griffith, manager of the Washington Senators and a keen promoter, inaugurated a baseball tradition and presidential duty when he invited President William Taft to attend the season opener and throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Griffith was born in 1869 in Clear Creek.
first appeared: 11/1/2009
In 2008, Curt and Deborah Sleeper of Festus (pop. 9,660) completed their dream home inside a 17,000-square-foot cave hollowed out by mining in the 1930s. The three-story cave house has a timber frame exterior in its 37-foot-tall opening.
first appeared: 10/18/2009
The world's largest turquoise carving, which weighs 68 pounds, is among the gems at the Golden Pioneer Museum in Golden in Barry County (pop. 34,010).
first appeared: 10/4/2009
The oldest farmers market west of the Mississippi River is Historic Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis. In 1838, Julia Cerre Soulard donated the land specifically for use as a marketplace, and vendors and farmers built the first permanent structure in the 1840s.
first appeared: 9/20/2009
Established in 1853, Kirkwood (pop. 27,324) is known as the "Queen of the St. Louis Suburbs" and was the first planned suburb west of the Mississippi River.
first appeared: 9/6/2009
Neck City (pop. 119) originally was known as Hell's Neck because of the rowdy nature of the mining town. When an application for a post office was made in 1899, "Hell" was dropped.
first appeared: 8/23/2009
Kip Cullers of Purdy (pop. 1,103) is the world's soybean king after harvesting 154 bushels of soybeans per acre, almost four times the national average, to set a world record in 2007.
first appeared: 8/9/2009
James White, 17, a junior at Grandview High School in Grandview (pop. 24,881), broke a 25-year national high school record for the high jump in April when he leapt 7 feet, 5¾ inches at the Winnetonka Invitational.
first appeared: 7/26/2009
—The first female governor in the United States was Nellie Tayloe Ross, who was elected Wyoming governor in 1924 to fill the unexpired term of her husband, William Ross. She was born in 1876 in St. Joseph (pop. 73,990).
first appeared: 7/12/2009
—The oldest continuously operated greenhouse conservatory in the United States is the Linnean House, built in 1882, at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.
first appeared: 6/28/2009
—In 1957, Arthur Frommer published Europe on 5 Dollars a Day, based on his budget travels while he was in the military, and launched his line of travel books. Frommer, considered one of the nation's foremost travel authorities, spent most of his childhood in Jefferson City (pop. 39,636).
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first appeared: 6/14/2009
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