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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Marceline
Marceline, Missouri and Vicinity
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| On Ritchie Avenue east of Main Street, on the right when traveling east. |
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Constructed in 1906, the building was brand new when Roy Disney remembered the entire family eating out at the Allen Hotel dining room. Roy didn't remember what he had to eat, but he did remember that his little sister, Ruth, spilled the plate . . . — — Map (db m67166) HM |
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Elias [Disney] purchased 45 acres in Marceline from his brother Robert at a price of $125 an acre, promising installment payments with money he was to receive for houses in Chicago that Flora had designed and he had built.
In the spring of . . . — — Map (db m67134) HM |
| Near North Main Street at West Ritchie Avenue. |
| | The confectionery located at this site in the Allen Hotel Block, built in 1905, was a favorite stop for Marcelineans with a sweet tooth. When designing Downtown Disney, which is adjacent to Disneyland, the Disney Company included Marceline's . . . — — Map (db m62153) HM |
| On West Broadway Street at Missouri Route 5, on the right when traveling west on West Broadway Street. |
| | The Disney family moved into this home in 1906.
"I went with my family to live in Marceline when I was four years old...I clearly remember the day we arrived there on the train. A Mr. Coffman met us in his wagon and we rode out to our house in the . . . — — Map (db m55367) HM |
| On Main Street 0.1 miles south of Centennial Drive, on the right when traveling south. |
| | . . . — — Map (db m67167) HM |
| Near North Main Street at West Ritchie Avenue. |
| | Walt Disney's hometown of Marceline today is much as it was when he lived here. The first plans of Disneyland show a remarkable resemblance to the town, with it's store fronts on main street and locomotives coming and going. All who enter Disneyland . . . — — Map (db m62154) HM |
| On Ritchie Avenue east of Main Street, on the left when traveling east. |
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This locomotive is of the "Consolidation" class, having a wheel arrangement 2-8-0. Santa Fe classified it as 2535 series.
The wheels are of medium size, indicating that it was intended for medium-speed, freight duty.
Number 2546 is one of . . . — — Map (db m67164) HM |
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In 1949 Walt Disney released the film "So Dear To My Heart," which takes place in the early 1900's - the same period as Walt's childhood.
In the movie, one of the structures on the farm was a barn. It was a set designed and built according to . . . — — Map (db m67136) HM |
| Near West Broadway Avenue 0.1 miles west of Missouri Route 5. |
| | This large cottonwood tree still stands where Walt and Ruth played and waded in the spring that runs at its base. Daydreaming under the giant cottonwood young Walt Disney would observe the whole of nature surrounding him – the bugs, animals, . . . — — Map (db m55381) HM |
| Near West Broadway Avenue 0.1 miles west of Missouri Route 5. |
| | In 1950 Walt recreated the barn from Marceline at his home in California and used it as his personal workshop.
It became his "Happy Place" and became the birthplace of "Disney Imagineering." — — Map (db m55382) HM |
| On North Kansas Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Opened June 30, 1930. In 1956, Walt and Roy Disney held the Midwest premiere of their feature film "The Great Locomotive Chase" in this theater. They personally greeted each child at the door. Walt and Roy took the stage before the movie started and . . . — — Map (db m55386) HM |
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As an adult Walt [Disney] wrote:
"To tell the truth, more things of importance happened to me in Marceline than have happened to me since or are likely to the future."
Often he drew upon farm life for stories and characters that became world . . . — — Map (db m67135) HM |
| On Ritchie Avenue east of Main Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | After Walt Disney's death in December of 1966, the citizens of Marceline lobbied the United States Postal Department to issue a commemorative stamp to his honor. The postal department agreed to issue the stamp. After the issuance of the stamp was . . . — — Map (db m67165) HM |
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Walt Disney was the age of four when his family moved from Chicago to a forty-acre farm in Marceline. Walt quickly learned to love farm life, and the old barn became his and his younger sister Ruth's favorite place to play.
The barn provided . . . — — Map (db m67137) HM |
| On Main Street north of Ritchie Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
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In honor of those from the
Marceline - Bucklin Community
who made the supreme sacrifice
in the World Wars
World War I
William Gupton Wesley Simon Hedrick William P. Jones Samuel Kennedy Lester Leake Foster Miller . . . — — Map (db m67141) HM |
| On North Main Street at West Ritchie Ave, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. |
| | The Coca-Cola building on Main Street USA at Disneyland is modeled after the Zurcher Building you see here. Built in 1892, Zurcher Jewelers occupied this site from 1903 to 1973. In the Knights of Pythias hall, located in the second story, Elias . . . — — Map (db m62421) HM |
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