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"Centerville Camp on 66," Centerville, Missouri. Some of Doolittle was called Centerville back before the name change after WWII. This is Monroe & Hattie Ramsey's store and service station on old Rt. 66. Monroe said it was halfway between Rolla and Newburg so he called it Centerville. Monroe worked on everything that came down the pike while Hattie managed the camp, three sandstone and frame cabins behind the garage. The Ramsays operated there in the 1930s until the expansion of Rt. 66 cut them off in the 1940s.




"Newly cast bull gear for a large hoist leaving the Fulton Foundry" - Virginia City, Nevada ca. 1879.




April 29, 1866 Granville Stuart recorded in his journal an astonishing event he witnessed in Fort Benton. “A freight wagon drawn by four mules and escorted by a company of miners, arrived. The wagon was loaded with two and one-half tons of gold dust, valued at one million five hundred thousand dollars. The gold was all from Confederate gulch and was shipped down the river by steamboat. This was the first and only time that I ever saw a wagon load of gold dust.” Pure refined gold was worth $20.67 an ounce in 1866.