Southeast Missouri-Northeast Arkansas Promotions

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2008.032

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection includes one scrapbook containing clippings about drainage and travel in southern Missouri and promotional pamphlets promoting the agriculture and settlement of southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas.

Dates

Creation: 1910-Circa 1920

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

The Little River Drainage District was formed in 1907 in order to drain the swamplands of Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas. As timber was cleared and the swamps drained, entrepreneurs encouraged settlement in the newly available agricultural lands.

Extent

2 folders

1 map folders

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Pamphlets and scrapbook advertising settlement in southeast Missouri and northeast Arkansas. The pamphlets were produced by real estate firms, Frisco rail lines, and the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau. They discuss topics such as drainage, roads, climate, soil, crops, churches, schools, livestock, land values as well as contain railroad maps of the region.