Description: Chapters: Ghost Towns in Missouri, Times Beach, Missouri, Xenia, Missouri, Possum Trot, Missouri, Goldman, Missouri, Monark Springs, Missouri, Hopewell, Mississippi County, Missouri, Hopewell Furnace, Missouri, Hopewell, Daviess County, Missouri. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Times Beach, Missouri was a small town of 2,240 residents in St. Louis County, Missouri, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 mi (3 km) east of Eureka, Missouri. The town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to a dioxin scare that made national headlines. It was the largest civilian exposure to dioxin in the United States. Times Beach was founded in 1925 on a floodplain along the Meramec River in a promotion by the now-defunct St. Louis Star-Times newspaper. A purchase of a 20 x 100 ft (6 by 30 m) lot for $67.50 included a six-month newspaper subscription. In its early years, the town was primarily a summer resort, but the Great Depression, followed by gasoline rationing during World War II combined to make summer homes impractical, so the town became a community of mostly low-income housing although there were still a few spending their winters in the city and their summers in Times Beach as late as 1970. In the years immediately prior to its evacuation, Times Beach had become a lower-middle class town historically there had always been one small grocery store and one gas station on old Highway 66 to serve the residents. Prone to flooding throughout its history its first buildings were built on stilts the town experienced a devastating flood three weeks before an announcement by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which led to the town's evacuation by 1985 and complete demolition by 1992. The town was disincorporated by executive order...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=34485 We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers. To get started finding Former Settlements in Missouri: Ghost Towns in Missouri, Times Beach, Missouri, Xenia, Missouri, Possum Trot, Missouri, Goldman, Missouri, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.