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They followed the example of Daniel Boone and came west, down the Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, then up the Mississippi, to Missouri.
By 1860, two-thirds of all Missourians were from the Upper South. Within 50 years, they had spread across the state and made their mark on the Missouri spirit.
Southern settlers predominated in Missouri before the Civil War, but there were not the only Anglo-Americans attracted to the state.
Immigrants from New England, Appalachia, and the Middle West came in increasing numbers to mingle with old stock from the Upper South and diversity the Missouri population.
— excerpted from the Missouri State Museum, Jefferson City, Missouri.
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Following the Civil War, the [African-American population] drifted out of the Ozarks....[Their loss] was unquestionably the gravest sociological loss suffered by the Ozarks region.
More than any other one component of frontier population the Negro had added depths and richness to the folk culture of the region and to its potential scientific and economic development.
George Washington Carver, born and raised a slave in the lower Missouri Ozarks, typified the magnificent Negro talent which, due to avoidable mass prejudice and degeneracy, has been substantially lost to the region.
The...exodus of the Negro served to restore isolation and to return the the frontier roads to an era of prolonged lapse.
The half-century following the Civil War was the nation's most definitive era of land travel and settlements along or by means of through roads. For the most part the Ozarks lacked the latter and in great part they were bypassed by the most historic of Westward migrations.
— pages 10, 11, Wilson, Charles Morrow, The Bodacious Ozarks: True Tales of the Backhills, Pelican Publishing Company, 1959.
• FEBRUARY 26-28: Weaving Workshop by Jeff Reynolds. Call (660) 886-4194.
• MARCH: Inherently Unequal: Segregated Education in Central Missouri (exhibit).
• MARCH 7: Arrow Rock & the Santa Fe Trail Trade (A 19th Century Economic Stimulus) lecture (10 AM), by Michael Dickey and Rich Lawson.
• MARCH 21: Lecture & Hike Through Big Muddy Refuge (1-5 PM).
• MARCH 28-29: War of 1812 Symposium.
• APRIL 4: George, Tom & Harry (100 Years of Missouri Art & Politics) lecture (10 AM), by Raymond T. Starzmann portraying Harry Truman.
• APRIL 12: Easter Parade with Easter Bunny & Egg Hunt (2 PM).
• MAY 2: Rediscovering the Tallgrass Prairie lecture (10 AM), by Mark Belwood.
• MAY 9: Spring Garden Show, Taste of Missouri, & George Caleb Bingham Art Festival.
• MAY 11-15: Quilt Camp by Betty Sue Simonson. Call (660) 837-3442.
• JUNE — AUGUST: Women in History (exhibit).
• JUNE 9: Lewis & Clark Picnic (6:30 PM).
• JULY 4: Impromptu Parade (2 PM), fireworks at dusk.
• JULY 12-16: Watercolor Workshop by Marilynne Bradley. Call (314) 968-1439.
• JULY 28: John Emmerson Memorial Band Concert (7 PM).
• SEPTEMBER 5: Arrow Rock Folk Jam & Ice Cream Freeze-Off.
• OCTOBER 10-11: Craft Festival (10AM to 5 PM).
• OCTOBER 24: Spirits, Shadows & Secrets of Arrow Rock-A Halloween Event (6-9 PM).
• NOVEMBER 14: ChristmasFest (all day).
• NOVEMBER 28: Hanging of the Greens (1 PM).
• DECEMBER 6: Christmas Folk Sing with Cathy Barton & Dave Para (4 PM).
— All programs and events take place at the Village of Arrow Rock near Marshall, Missouri.
Call: (660) 837-3231. Visit: (www) Arrow Rock (.org).