The symbol of the 515th Engineer Company (PL)(CS) presented to the Citizens of Lebanon and Laclede County on May 4, 1991, for outstanding support of troops and families during Operation Desert Storm. — — Map (db m96192) WM
Camp Joy on Route 66 was started in 1927 by Charles and Lida Spears with the help of their son Emis and his wife Lois. Leaving Nebraska in 1927 the Speares traveled Route 66 from Arizona eastward looking for a good place to establish a tourist camp. . . . — — Map (db m171960) HM
Elnora Evelyn Briggans Ford was born on October 11, 1920, in
Independence, Kansas.
Elnora grew up near Coffeyville, and graduated from Kansas State Teachers
College in Pittsburg. Her first teaching job was in rural Wallace, Kansas
teaching . . . — — Map (db m271462) HM
A campaign to establish the U.S.O. in the Fort Leonard Wood area began in March of
1941. As the military was still segregated, plans called for separate clubs for
Caucasian and African American soldiers. Space for a Caucasian U.S.O. club . . . — — Map (db m271463) HM
This monument is dedicated to the men from Laclede County who made the supreme sacrfice in these wars.
Afghanistan
Lames M. Finley
Iraq
Lawrence L. Parrish — — Map (db m246288) WM
(each subject has its own square tile)
Gasconade River Bridge
A mixed-truss bridge built about 1924 near Hazelgreen, when the road was State Highway 14. It carried traffic until 2014.
Harris Cafι Conway
Built in . . . — — Map (db m186588) HM
Lebanon, lying 1,265 feet above sea level, in Missouri's Central Ozarks, was founded in 1849 as the seat of newly organized Laclede County. Southern settlers named the town for Lebanon, Tenn. The county name honors the founder of St. Louis. When . . . — — Map (db m44872) HM
[Text blocks are taken from the right side of the mural, in order from the top]
Route 66 Museum
Take a self-guided tour of this museum, which features recreations
of a 1950s gas station and a classic diner, along with displays . . . — — Map (db m271465) HM
(each subject has its own square tile)
A.T. Nelson
Col. Arthur T. Nelson was well-known throughout Missouri and the U.S. He was key in persuading authorities to built Route 66 through Lebanon and donated land for the new road. . . . — — Map (db m186582) HM
["]I do speak for the Great Masses of the Mississippi Valley, when I say that we will not submit to the domination of any political party, however much we may love it, that lays the sacrificing hand upon silver and will demonetize it.["]
Erected . . . — — Map (db m96190) HM
Dedicated to
All American Veterans
both past and present
who faithfully have served
our nation in war and peace
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In Memory of
All American . . . — — Map (db m158061) WM
In Honor of the
Fallen Warriors
of
Laclede County
by its Citizens
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Lebanon Area Fallen Warriors
[Roll of Honored Dead]
[not transcribed]
[Boots . . . — — Map (db m158065) WM
In 1941, O.E. Carter and Ed Lawson erected a
prefabricated gas station on Route 66 west of the
Frisco Railroad overpass know as the Subway.
Many truckers had to let the air out of their tires or
detour around the 13-foot-5-inch bridge. . . . — — Map (db m271482) HM
