Driving the backroads of Adair County, one encounters signs of habitation in small clusters. More often, one is met with desolation. Abandoned barns, signs of the former agricultural legacy of the area, sit in weed-choked fields. Farming continues out here, along with ranching, but due to the greater efficiency of modern agriculture, less people are…
Tag: Adair County
Adair, Revisited
I made it back out to the small hamlet of Adair, in eastern Adair County. It looks like there has been some work on the church, which is on the National Register. The cemetery is also mowed, and kept in general good condition. The town is not doing so well, as the abandoned country store…
Diminished Victorian, Kirksville, Missouri
The cruel irony of this house surviving demolition is that it has been relegated to a shadow of its former self. Stripped of its Victorian Period details, it exists as a stump, a fragment of its original sumptuousness.
Along the Old Railroad Line in Kirksville
The railroad used to go through Kirksville, until it was ripped out unceremoniously my freshman year for scrap metal. For years there was a large, muddy trench left in its wake, but I was pleased to see that it has been converted to a bike trail. But what is cool is that many of the…
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Update: The museum and visitors’ center is now complete. One of the best parties I went to in college consisted of two houses, the Green House and the White House combining forces for live music and debauchery. I guess it was only a matter of time before Truman got ahold of them to end the…
Kirksville Urban Renewal
Update: This was the parking lot across from my house junior and senior years of college. There were houses there until a few years before I arrived at Truman State in August of 1996.
I Can’t Believe I Used To Live Here
Update: Between November 2012 and March of 2016, the house was repainted brown.
Forest Llewelyn Cemetery, Kirksville
The original cemetery of Kirksville is a fascinating, strange place to observe the different styles of tombstones and monuments over the course of the last 150 years. If you look closely at the stone below, you can see a woman crying on another woman’s shoulder.