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From: "Donna Cooper" <>
Subject: [MOBARRY] Featured Photo
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:23:54 -0500 (Central Daylight Time)


List Readers: Our featured photo for the week is a street scene from
Washburn, MO. I don't know the date that it was taken. I would guess about
1910 but that's only a guess.

It is a photo postcard that I bought from someone in Cheshire, CN. There is
no telling how it got there from Washburn, MO.

It has a message on the back but I have no idea who it was from or who it
was to, so if you have any clues about that, please let me know. Also if you
know anything about any of the stores or people in the scene, please let me
know.

I do know that the store on the left had an old post office in the very back
during the 1940's. The big store in the middle is the old Devereaux
Building. I believe that it was build by J. Devereaux. It was a Farmer's
Exchange back in the 1940's.

Washburn was incorporated in 1880 on the petition of J. M. McClure and
others. It was called Keetsville for J. T. or James Keet prior to that. A
lot of people get confused by the name of O'Day and can't figure how it fits
into Washburn. O'Day was located where Hwy 90 and 37 intersect. It was near
where the Weathers home, the old salt box house of the Civil War era, stands
today and I believe from what the old timers said it was on located on what
we call Hwy 90 today. My great-great grandfather had a hotel on the south
side of the road, at the intersection of 90 and 37 and it was in located in
O'Day. That area is called Washburn today.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/oddsnends/bryfams.htm

There is more information about the area on the "Focus on Washburn" page. We
added Phyllis Long's Cargile family to the page yesterday.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/Washburn/index.htm

Donna Cooper, Barry County CC


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