It was in this town of Grant City, MO. that world famous bandleader Glenn Miller acquired and learned to play his first horn. That first musical instrument was an old trombone which was lying on a shelf in a back storeroom of a cleaning parlor. . . . — — Map (db m188194) HM
Bell placed on water tower during the 1930s. Used as alarm for fires, curfew 1950s, and announcing the end of W.W. II. Feb 98 tower was dismantled and moved to present site April 2000. — — Map (db m216964) HM
The last of Missouri's 114 counties to be formed, Worth was organized in Feb., 1861, 6 months and 39 years after Missouri was admitted into the Union, Aug., 1821, with 25 counties. Encompassing 267 sq. miles of glacial prairie, it is the State's . . . — — Map (db m179674) HM
