Dade
County, Missouri
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Identifier: p01137
Title: Everton,
Missouri Depot
Creator: Allen
Johnson
Description: The
railroad depot at Everton, Missouri,
used by the St. Louis-San Francisco
Railway Company. Everton is comparatively
a new city, dating its birth from
the building of the K. C. Ft. S. & M.
railroad in 1881.
County: Dade
Division: Northern |
Subdivision: Ash
Grove
Branch: Unknown
Station: C176
Freight: 249
Milepost: 176
miles from Kansas City
Date Original: August
24, 1952
Source: 3
x 5 inch black and white photograph |
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Identifier: p01156
Title: Greenfield,
Missouri Depot
Creator: Howard
D. Killam
Description: The
railroad depot at Greenfield, Missouri,
used by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Company. [This depot was probably located in South Greenfield about three miles south of Greenfield. In 1903 the track came through South Greenfield, with a single track spur to a lumberyard and stockyard in Greenfield proper.]
County: Dade
Division: Northern |
Subdivision: Ash
Grove
Branch: Aurora
Station: BA
168
Freight: 332
Milepost: 165.5
miles from Kansas City
Date
Original: June
15, 1957
Source: 4
x 6 inch black and white photograph |
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Identifier: p01182
Title: Lockwood,
Missouri Depot
Creator: Arthur
Johnson
Description: The
railroad depot at Lockwood, Missouri,
used by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Company
County: Dade
Division: Northern |
Subdivision: Ash
Grove
Branch: Unknown
Station: C159
Freight: 493
Milepost: 158.6
miles from Kansas City
Date Original: June
15, 1957
Source: 2
x 3 inch black and
white photograph |
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Identifier: p01252
Title: South
Greenfield, Missouri Depot
Creator: Unknown
Description: The
railroad depot at South Greenfield, Missouri,
used by the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway
Company. Prior to the year 1881, there
were no railroads in Dade County. In
that day, Greenfield was the metropolis
of the county and all the horse tracks
in the road pointed in that direction.
The old railroad survey to which Dade
County had subscribed bonds in the sum
of $250,000 touched the townsite of Greenfield
on the southwest but when the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad
was built, it missed the town by three
miles. It follows a natural depression
out of
the Turnback and Limestone hills to the
prairie, leaving the county seat stranded
on high and dry ground.
People in their enthusiasm and speculation
expected to see Greenfield with her business
interests and county offices move bodily
to the railroad point.
Various new businesses were established,
and in a few years, the new |
city
attained a population of 600.
At this juncture the unexpected happened. T. A. Miller conceived the idea of
building a brand new railroad from Greenfield to South Greenfield by popular
subscription. Greenfield business men took kindly to the idea and in a short
time, the Greenfield and Northern Railroad was a reality. Later on, this road
was extended southward thirty miles to Aurora, and was sold to the Frisco System.
With the building of this railroad, the county seat hope of South Greenfield
folded and finally vanished into thin air. (—History of Dade County
and Its
People, Vol. 1, pp. 217-218-219.) [This image was labeled South Greenfield by the original owner. It is more likely the Greenfield depot from another angle. The Greenfield depot was apparently located in South Greenfield.]
County: Dade
Division: Northern
Subdivision: Ash
Grove
Branch: Unknown
Station: C166
Freight: 780
Milepost: 165.5
miles from Kansas City
Date Original: Unknown
Source: 3
x 4.5 inch black and white photograph |
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