An informative and historical overview of Phelps County, Missouri including three separate sections on one CD which include 4 historical maps (1851, 1913, 1920's and 1929), plus the full Phelps County section from the book: Goodspeed's History of Phelps County, Missouri originally published in 1889.  An important resource for the study and research of Phelps County, Missouri history and genealogy.

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This fascinating and detailed CD contains ALL of the following material in three separate books, ALL on one CD:

Section One of three, all on one CD: Maps of Phelps County, Missouri
Included here are the central Ozarks of Missouri sections of 4 different historical maps:

A. A rare 1851 map that shows Phelps County before being divided from Crawford, Pulaski, and Maries County.

A 1904 map of Phelps County can be viewed here: Phelps County, Missouri 1904 Map

B. A map of 1913 Phelps County showing the locations of 18 different settlements including all of the following: Arlington * Beulah * Blooming Rose * Clementine * Craddock * Edgar Springs * Flat * Jerome * Knobview * Merimac * Norman * Relfe * Rolla * St. James * Spring Creek * Vida * Winkler * Yancy Mills . Additionally, this map shows the location of numerous rural schools.

C. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

D. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Section Two of three, all on one CD: Phelps County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are seven pages concerning Phelps County from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information!

Section Three of three, all on one CD: The complete 1889 Goodspeed's History of Phelps County, Missouri.
This detailed (125 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Phelps County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Phelps County, Missouri including all of the historical and biographical information.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Natural features of Phelps County

• Pioneer History of Phelps County, Missouri

• Establishment of Phelps County

• Phelps County Circuit Court Transactions

• Political Record of Phelps County

• Phelps County Societies and Organizations

• Military Affairs (Civil War history) including movements of Union and Confederate forces and including battles and skirmishes in Phelps County, Missouri

• Phelps County Schools

• Churches and related organizations in Phelps County

• History of Phelps County Cities and Towns including: Arlington * Edgar Springs * Meramac Spring * Newburg * Rolla * St. James .

Included is a 52 page biographical section with family biographies (valuable for genealogy) for each of the following Phelps County surnames: To view a sample family biography, click here  Arthur * Baker * Baumgartner * Bishop * Bland * Boisselier * Bowman * Branson * Burns * Burwell * Campbell * Carpenter * Cartall * Cowan * Davis * Dean * Donahoe * Evans * Flint * Fort * Freeman * Frost * Gaddy * Hale * Hanrahan * Harrison * Hawkins * Headlee * Herbert * House * Hutcheson * Jones * Kelly * Kitchen * Lamb * Lenox * LeSueur * Livesay * Long * Love * McCrae * Margedant * Martin * Meriwether * Miller * Mitchell * Parker * Ramsey * Rauch * Roster * Sally * Shaw * Shinman * Short * Smith * Soest * Stewart * Stimson * Ten Eyck * Thompson *Vetter * Weber

In addition to those listed above, more than 1000 other family surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.

Phelps County is located in the central portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Crawford County, Missouri * Dent County, Missouri * Maries County, Missouri * Dallas County, Missouri * Pulaski County, Missouri * Texas County, Missouri * Gasconade County, Missouri (click on highlighted county names for a complete description)

Each of the three sections on this CD is in Adobe Acrobat pdf format and requires the free Acrobat Reader program to view. You probably already have this program on your computer but if not, a free copy of the program is included on the CD. Each of the books is designed to look just like a regular book and is bookmarked to move easily and quickly from one section another.  This CD was designed by, and is available exclusively from Hearthstone Legacy Publications.

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The cost for this CD containing all three sections described above is only $9.95 plus shipping, or only $4.95 as a digital download. A large amount of history and genealogy information for very little cost! A truly fascinating view of Phelps County, Missouri from its first settlement to 1889.

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