New Coffee Shop/Cafe Opens in Fitterer Building 2018
The grand opening for Grand & Market is set for Thursday, July 19, 2018. The new coffee shop/café will open on the southwest corner of the Gallatin business square across from the courthouse, the “Fitterer Building.” The new business venture is owned...
Funeral Homes Purchased by Stiths in 2019
McWilliams Family Funeral Home in Gallatin, owned by David and Deanna McWilliams for the past 19 years, was recently sold to a Polo couple. Kyle and Erin Stith purchased the funeral homes located at Gallatin and Jamesport and officially took over the reins on Jan. 1,...
Poles of Change: Digital Wireless Service Grows in Daviess County, MO
Signs of improving wireless digital services are as evident as several 100-foot poles erected at locations in Daviess County by Windstream Communications. The Fixed Wireless sites are part of Windstream’s Kinetic Broadband expansion which unfolded in 2019. The...
Community Center at Seventh-day Adventist Church
Karen Reed is now carrying on the work which she and her late husband, Bill Reed, and a group of faithful volunteers began many years ago. “We never dreamed it would be this big,” she says. The Reeds have been the directors of the Gallatin Seventh-day...
3 Suggested Sources for Reading More About the Life and Times of Frank & Jesse
Speaking for a meeting of Northwest Missouri County Commissioners in December, 2022, retired newspaper editor and publisher Darryl Wilkinson offered comments about outlaws Frank & Jesse James to county officials in a meeting held at Gallatin, MO. The presentation...
Spend Some Time Visiting the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail in Gallatin, MO
Rotary jails, where a round “squirrel cage” divided into jail cells spins on a single axis inside a perimeter of stationary bars, are antiques. Six rotary jails are known to have been constructed, all variations off the patented design by the Pauley Jail...
Pioneers: Bohemian Cemetery in Harrison County Marks Past
The names of the tombstones are straight from the Old Country: Kokesh. Soukup, Stoklasa. Mlika. Karsky. Pelikan. Their gravestones mark the final resting places for a group of Bohemian immigrants who established farms in the fertile Thompson River valley, west of...
Sports: Pattonsburg Coach Jeff Bowland into Hall of Fame
Former Pattonsburg R-2 Coach Jeff Bowland is one of 10 individuals making up the 2020 Missouri Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Class which will be inducted Sunday, Sept. 13, 2020, at the Doubletree Hotel in Springfield. Coach Bowland, who passed away in...
Newspapers: North Missourian (1864-2021) & Gallatin Publishing Company
The Gallatin North Missourian was published from 1864 to 2021.
Sports: Dennis Cox Earns 2019 MIAAA Distinguished Service Award
Dennis Cox has been awarded the Missouri Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association (MIAAA) Distinguished Award in recognition of his outstanding support of high school athletics in Northwest Missouri. Dennis was nominated for this award by Gallatin R-5...
Union Cemetery in Daviess County, MO.
Union Cemetery, located northwest of Lake Viking in Daviess County, MO. The Old Union Church was erected in 1855 and removed in 1961. This was the only house of worship in Daviess County west of Gallatin until the Civil War. Prior to church building construction,...
1980 (circa): Lile Cemetery in Gallatin, MO
Lile Cemetery is located 4 blocks west of South Main (Hwy 13), immediately west of First Baptist Gallatin Church, in Gallatin, MO.
2019 Reenactment of James Boys Robbing Daviess County Savings Assn. in 1869
Despite threatening weather, the third reenactment of the infamous Jesse James bank robbery played out on streets of Gallatin, MO on Sept. 21, 2019. A crowd gathered at the northwest corner of the town square on Sept. 21, 2019 to mark the 150th anniversary of a...
2019: Davis-Aulgur Foundation Era of Philanthropy Boosts the County
A foundation set up by the Davis-Aulgur Family 45 years ago will go out in a blaze of glory by giving away $30,000 to three Daviess County institutions. This marks the end of an era of generosity from one of the oldest families associated with Daviess County, MO. The...
Sports: Missouri’s All-Time Winning Basketball Coach Larry Holley
The all-time winningest college basketball coach in the State of Missouri is hanging up his sneakers and turning in his whistle at the end of the 2018-19 season. Head William Jewell College Coach, former Cardinal player and Jameson High School alum Larry Holley...
Politics: Gallatin’s Phil Tate Elected to 6 Terms in State Legislature
Phillip Alan “Phil” Tate, 73, lifelong resident of Gallatin, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 2019, in his home. Phil was born on March 21, 1946 to Hubert L. and Patricia M. (Drummond) Tate in St. Joseph. He graduated from Gallatin High School in 1964,...
Civil War: The Remarkable Memoirs of Sgt. I.V. Smith, CSA
These memories of Confederate soldier I.V. Smith who enrolled in a Rebel company raised at Maysville, MO, in 1861. A descendant of Sgt. Smith, Robert Robertson of Gallatin, MO, shares this remarkable personal perspective of the war. Smith’s memoirs are presented...
Sources for Cemetery Lists for Daviess County, MO
The following lists the sources of the cemetery lists which appear on this website (as of July 6, 1995): “Genealogy of the Bliss Family in America ” by Aaron T. Bliss; Family History, Pensacola Library. “The Levan Brookshier Family” by Doris...
2018: Fire Destroys Tuggle Farm House (circa 1890)
On Jan. 6, 2018, an old farmhouse burned down in Daviess County. The “Tuggle House,” located on a gravel road about two miles southwest of Gallatin, had been unoccupied for years; still, it held many fond memories for the family, noted Dick Paul, and was...
Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
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