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Royal Brewing Co, Platte county, MO (ca 1890)

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Getting ready to hang tobacco leaves to cure, called housing. Weston, MO (ca 1900).

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Tobacco buyers at the Weston Burley House annual fall Tobacco Show where buyers would negotiate & buy from the tobacco farmers (ca 1940).

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The Weston Burley House built in 1937 is still used today for community events such as antique & flea markets, the Weston BBQ & Testicle Festival, & whiskey & cigar fests. It has been added on to & has an inside rail siding.
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Iatan, MO was a bustling river port & steamboat stop on the Missouri River. It then became a regular train stop when the railroad was built west after the Civil War. Flooding in 1881 moved the river channel a couple miles further west & the Iatan businesses moved with it, dividing the town residents. In 1923 a spark from a locomotive burned the new town to the ground. The ruins of a hotel & a few residents living in the area are all that remain today.

After the 1881 flood.

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