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The Truman Area Community Network
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This map was scanned from a copy made of the 1895 Plat Book of Henry County. Considerable changes in the tracks in the this area were made after 1895.
The North Clinton depot was little used after 1901 and burnt down in the summer of 1910. North Clinton Yard eventually had 4 tracks to the east of the main line, instead of the 3 shown (2 through and 1 stub), with the connection from the MK&T being made to the easternmost of these tracks, and the stub tracks inside the east connection from the K. C., O. & S. to the M., K. & T. were removed long ago. The "Chatauqua tornado" of July 20, 1903 destroyed the original wooden Blair Line (Kansas City Osceola & Southern) roundhouse, which had 6 stalls, damaging 3 engines (Frisco #31, #400 and #406), and it was replaced by the Frisco with a brick 3 stall house with small attached machine shop. The roundhouse and machine shop were demolished in May, 1964; the concrete edging of the turntable pit was visible well into the 1980s. The Blair line built a spur to the Clinton Pottery which was extended in 1887 northeast across 7th Street to new Clinton Gas plant and still later extended to a junction with the MK&T's Tebo Mill spur. The pottery plant closed by 1910, and the building was taken down by the 1940s. The Gas plant closed in the 1931. In 1920 a large (247,000 bushel) concrete grain elevator was built in the southeast corner of the mill property, and two tracks were run off the Frisco connecting track to the elevator. Elm Street between 6th and 7th doesn't exist anymore; the weed covered remains of the Frisco tracks occupies most of it. |
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Tebo Mill & Elevator later became the Larrabee Mill, then part of the Commander-Larrabee Company. After the mill was closed the grain elevator was eventually acquired by Archer - Daniels - Midland, who sold it to Miller Seed.
The MK&T spur to the Tebo Mill later consisted of 3 tracks, which separated between 3rd and 4th Street and came back together at 6th Street. The two of the tracks ran on the north side of the flour warehouse building and the southern track ran between that and the main mill building. Now all the buildings are gone, the last to go being the concrete grain elevator, which was demolished in August of 2001. All the tracks west of 6th Street and east of 7th Street are now gone also. Most of the old track grade between 5th and 6th Streets, including the elevator tracks, has been covered by various buildings and grain bins of Miller Seed.
Both of the ponds shown have long since disappeared. |
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