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Downtown Eldon Historical Society

reviving downtown eldon's railroad ties

Railroad Through "Beckers Cut"

“Emil Becker of Spring Garden had a contract with the new railroad to open up the dividing ridge between the Osage and Missouri rivers,...

Railroad Strike of 1887

Eventually the railroad came to downtown Eldon and brought capital… I’m guessing that is when it boomed… by the 1930s you have the Craft...

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