Downtown Eldon's Founding Father

George Riley Weeks, a Civil War veteran, came to Miller County in the 1860s from the State of Vermont. He came with his wife and child and became a farmer once arriving in the area.

According to "Eldon a Look Back," he bought land from R.S. Harvey for about $6 an acre. As a farmer he was considered "ahead of his time"

Roughly 15 years later, In 1881 he suggested the forming the TOWN COMPANY.

It is said he was the "Ring Leader" that brought the "Railhead" to what would later be called Eldon. On March 15th 1882 George R. Weeks "signed and filed the plat of the town of Eldon as proprietor thereof..." In 1889 it was incorporated as a town. (pg. 17 "Eldon a Look Back")