Photographs of Town
City Photo Album 1893
Photographs of 1893 Kirksville taken by Drake of Aurora, IN. All, but two images have been identified.
City Photo Album 1897
Photographs of late nineteenth century Kirksville, with many identified locations and some currently still unidentified.
Places to go, People to see
New Court House
After the court house built in 1852-55 was destroyed in a fire, citizens gathered to get a new court house built, which was completed in 1899.
Mercantile college
A college that had it’s start in 1880 and closed in 1897. Students within the college studied penmanship shorthand & typing, business, and telegraphy.
Residents
These are the portraits of subscribers that were submitted for publication in the 1898 atlas.
Image: Atlas of Adair County Missouri 1898
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