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| ⚫ | Edith is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Russell Township, Camden County, Missouri|Russell Township]] in southern [[Camden County, Missouri|Camden County]], [[Missouri]], United States, and is also known as Green Gables. It is located on State Road U three miles south of [[U.S. Route 54]], and about seven miles east of [[Macks Creek, Missouri|Macks Creek]] and 12 miles west of [[Camdenton, Missouri|Camdenton.]]<ref name=":0">Overlay, Fauna R. "Place Names Of Five South Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/74341</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Camden County {{!}} The State Historical Society of Missouri |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/camden-county |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=collections.shsmo.org}}</ref><ref name=":1">USGS National Map, Green Gables, Missouri.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/740045 |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Edith is an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in [[Russell Township, Camden County, Missouri|Russell Township]] in southern [[Camden County, Missouri|Camden County]], [[Missouri]], United States, and is also known as Green Gables.<ref name=":0">Overlay, Fauna R. "Place Names Of Five South Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/74341</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Camden County {{!}} The State Historical Society of Missouri |url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/camden-county |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=collections.shsmo.org}}</ref><ref>USGS National Map, Green Gables, Missouri.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/740045 |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> |
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There was a post office by the name of Edith from |
There was a post office by the name of Edith from 1894 to 1918.<ref>[https://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO Post Offices]. Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 8 September 2016.</ref><ref name=":1" /> The Pleasant Grove School was located here prior to, and between, 1938 and 1946, and was rebuilt in 2006. Edith was a resort community based around recreational access to the [[Niangua River]] and the Green Gables Lodge in the 1940s. |
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[[File:Edith,_Missouri.jpg|thumb|Edith, Missouri, site of the Pleasant Grove Church and Green Gables Lodge]] |
[[File:Edith,_Missouri.jpg|thumb|Edith, Missouri, site of the Pleasant Grove Church and Green Gables Lodge]] |
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The Pleasant Grove Cemetery and the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1868, remain here.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri |url=http://genealogytrails.com/mo/camden/cem_pleasantgrove.html |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=genealogytrails.com}}</ref> |
The Pleasant Grove Cemetery and the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1868, remain here.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri |url=http://genealogytrails.com/mo/camden/cem_pleasantgrove.html |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=genealogytrails.com}}</ref> |
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== History == |
== History == |
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[[File:Pleasant_Grove_School,_Edith,_Camden_County,_MO.jpg|thumb|Pleasant Grove School at Edith, Missouri ]] |
[[File:Pleasant_Grove_School,_Edith,_Camden_County,_MO.jpg|thumb|Pleasant Grove School at Edith, Missouri ]] |
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Edith was likely named for Edyth King Roach (1878-1955), the wife of U.S. Representative and Lawyer Sidney |
Edith was likely named for Edyth King Roach (1878-1955),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Old Roach/Union Electric Cemetery Transcription |url=http://www.looktothepast.com/index102.html |access-date=2024-11-06 |website=www.looktothepast.com}}</ref> the wife of U.S. Representative and Lawyer [[Sidney C. Roach]] (1876-1934) for whose father, Littleberry "Jack" Roach, nearby [[Roach, Missouri]], was named. The Roach family migrated here from Tennessee in 1831.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-06-15 |title=Roach History |url=https://roachrattler.wordpress.com/background-on-roach-mo/ |access-date=2024-11-05 |website=The Roach Rattler |language=en}}</ref> |
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Edith is also known on maps as "Pleasant Grove" and as "Green Gables." |
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| ⚫ | "The summer resort there, however, has recently assumed the more glamorous name of Green Gables, probably inspired by [[Lucy Maud Montgomery|Lucy Maud Montgomery's]] popular romance, ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'', first published in 1908. The summer homes there are said all to have painted their gables green."<ref name=":0" /> |
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=== Green Gables Lodge === |
=== Green Gables Lodge === |
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In 1926, the year an illustrated edition of the novel [[Anne of Green Gables |
In 1926, the year an illustrated edition of the novel ''[[Anne of Green Gables]]'' was released,<ref>{{Cite web |title=BIBLIO {{!}} Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud) {{!}} Illustrated by Elizabeth R. Withington {{!}} 1926 {{!}} L.C. Page, and Company |url=https://www.biblio.com/book/anne-green-gables-montgomery-lm-lucy/d/956151379?srsltid=AfmBOorHBGaFEWt1fyAGvqqbVxIcPX4_SNTRAcf-NuNzn8lX0AY7pAuy |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=www.biblio.com}}</ref> the Green Gables Lodge was erected at Edith. Eventually there was a 3,192-square-foot dormitory building for 12 people, a 2,500-square-foot lodge building, a 4-acre lake, basketball courts, a climbing wall and 375 feet of frontage on the [[Niangua River]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Erickson |first=Kurt |date=2021-10-05 |title=With river frontage, pond and dormitory, Missouri looks to lease old state youth facility |url=https://www.stltoday.com/outdoors/with-river-frontage-pond-and-dormitory-missouri-looks-to-lease-old-state-youth-facility/article_cf452799-8bdd-5e34-9e24-f7ee7ab3fc0f.html |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=STLtoday.com |language=en}}</ref> |
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Between about 1988 and 2016, Green Gables Lodge was a residential treatment facility, oftentimes with an adventure-based counseling model. It consisted of "160 acres of woods, pasture, and a spring fed lake situated along the [[Niangua River]]. |
Between about 1988 and 2016, Green Gables Lodge was a residential treatment facility, oftentimes with an adventure-based counseling model. It consisted of "160 acres of woods, pasture, and a spring fed lake situated along the [[Niangua River]]." There was a library, three restrooms, administrative offices. The dormitory featured a sleeping area, dining room, kitchen, pantries, dayroom, two restrooms, showers and laundry. There was also a maintenance building and "five storage buildings containing surplus supplies, camping equipment and yard tools." |
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In 2015, treatment here included "individualized, group, educational, medical, and psychosocial, and other needs and topics specialized and individualized to meet the needs of each resident in the care of the facility. |
In 2015, treatment here included "individualized, group, educational, medical, and psychosocial, and other needs and topics specialized and individualized to meet the needs of each resident in the care of the facility." Treatment focused on "Adventure Based Counseling" with "fishing, running, canoeing, backpacking, basecamping, and Ropes Courses."<ref>Missouri Department of Social Services. Compliance Report, National PREA Resource Center, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. https://dss.mo.gov/reports/prison-rape-elimination-act-reports/prea-audit-full-compliance-reports/2015/CY-2015-PREA-Audit-Green-Gables-Lodge.pdf</ref> |
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== Geography == |
== Geography == |
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Edith is near the western banks of the winding [[Niangua River]], about four linear miles southwest of [[Roach, Missouri|Roach]] and five miles east of [[Macks Creek, Missouri|Macks Creek]], the largest settlement in Russell Township. |
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It is one-half mile north of the Whistle Bridge, a concrete causeway at the end of Tunnel Dam Road that crosses the Big Niangua River downstream from the dam. |
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| ⚫ | Edith is nearly two miles northwest of White City, a former community built on the rocky ridge to house the workers who erected the Tunnel Dam on the Niangua River beginning in about 1922.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCarty |first=Jim |date=2023-08-21 |title=Tunnel Dam |url=https://ruralmissouri.org/tunnel-dam/ |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=Rural Missouri |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Edith is about a mile and a half (linearly) north of Chapel Bluff, the site of notable limestone rock formations located along the [[Niangua River]], south of the confluence of Jacks Creek with Mire Hollow Creek.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/715721 |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> It is the site of the former Chapel Bluff School, where, in the 1926–27 school year, Roy Tipton was the teacher, W. A. Vance was president and the clerk was John Varner.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Camden County MO Schools |url=http://www.looktothepast.com/camden/schools1927.html |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=www.looktothepast.com}}</ref> |
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Chapel Bluff is about 3 1/2 linear miles north of the village of [[Celt, Missouri|Celt]], an [[Unincorporated area|unincorporated community]] in northeastern [[Dallas County, Missouri|Dallas County]], [[Missouri]], and the same distance to the east of Only, Missouri, which was the name of a populated place, with a post office between 1907 and 1919, also in [[Russell Township, Camden County, Missouri|Russell Township]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Geographic Names Information System |url=https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/search/names/744770 |access-date=2024-11-03 |website=edits.nationalmap.gov}}</ref> Only is on State Road O, off of Chapel Bluff Road as it emerges from the Niangua Hills. <ref name=":0" /> Only is to the immediate south of the historical village known as Dry Ridge where a school remained into the late 1920s. Another now extinct village by the same name was on the eastern side of the Niangua. |
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The Wiley Gott Cemetery, established 1868, and the Mills Cemetery, established 1888, are south of Edith, 1.8 linear miles and 3.2 miles, respectively, the southernmost burial sites in Camden County. |
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Edith is 4.4 linear miles northeast from the historical village known as Dry Ridge, also in Russell Township, Camden County, Missouri. There was a post office here between 1876 and 1877, and a school that remained into the late 1920s. |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 03:45, 7 November 2024
Edith is an unincorporated community in Russell Township in southern Camden County, Missouri, United States, and is also known as Green Gables. It is located on State Road U three miles south of U.S. Route 54, and about seven miles east of Macks Creek and 12 miles west of Camdenton.[1][2][3][4]
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| Coordinates: 37°56′47.7″N 92°52′29.6″W / 37.946583°N 92.874889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Camden |
| Named for | Edyth King Roach family |
There was a post office by the name of Edith from 1894 to 1918.[5][3] The Pleasant Grove School was located here prior to, and between, 1938 and 1946, and was rebuilt in 2006. Edith was a resort community based around recreational access to the Niangua River and the Green Gables Lodge in the 1940s.
The Pleasant Grove Cemetery and the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, founded in 1868, remain here.[6]
History
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Edith was likely named for Edyth King Roach (1878-1955),[7] the wife of U.S. Representative and Lawyer Sidney C. Roach (1876-1934) for whose father, Littleberry "Jack" Roach, nearby Roach, Missouri, was named. The Roach family migrated here from Tennessee in 1831.[8]
Edith is also known on maps as "Pleasant Grove" and as "Green Gables."
"The summer resort there, however, has recently assumed the more glamorous name of Green Gables, probably inspired by Lucy Maud Montgomery's popular romance, Anne of Green Gables, first published in 1908. The summer homes there are said all to have painted their gables green."[1]
Green Gables Lodge
[edit]In 1926, the year an illustrated edition of the novel Anne of Green Gables was released,[9] the Green Gables Lodge was erected at Edith. Eventually there was a 3,192-square-foot dormitory building for 12 people, a 2,500-square-foot lodge building, a 4-acre lake, basketball courts, a climbing wall and 375 feet of frontage on the Niangua River.[10]
Between about 1988 and 2016, Green Gables Lodge was a residential treatment facility, oftentimes with an adventure-based counseling model. It consisted of "160 acres of woods, pasture, and a spring fed lake situated along the Niangua River." There was a library, three restrooms, administrative offices. The dormitory featured a sleeping area, dining room, kitchen, pantries, dayroom, two restrooms, showers and laundry. There was also a maintenance building and "five storage buildings containing surplus supplies, camping equipment and yard tools."
In 2015, treatment here included "individualized, group, educational, medical, and psychosocial, and other needs and topics specialized and individualized to meet the needs of each resident in the care of the facility." Treatment focused on "Adventure Based Counseling" with "fishing, running, canoeing, backpacking, basecamping, and Ropes Courses."[11]
Geography
[edit]Edith is near the western banks of the winding Niangua River, about four linear miles southwest of Roach and five miles east of Macks Creek, the largest settlement in Russell Township.
It is one-half mile north of the Whistle Bridge, a concrete causeway at the end of Tunnel Dam Road that crosses the Big Niangua River downstream from the dam.
Edith is nearly two miles northwest of White City, a former community built on the rocky ridge to house the workers who erected the Tunnel Dam on the Niangua River beginning in about 1922.[12]
Edith is about a mile and a half (linearly) north of Chapel Bluff, the site of notable limestone rock formations located along the Niangua River, south of the confluence of Jacks Creek with Mire Hollow Creek.[13] It is the site of the former Chapel Bluff School, where, in the 1926–27 school year, Roy Tipton was the teacher, W. A. Vance was president and the clerk was John Varner.[14]
Chapel Bluff is about 3 1/2 linear miles north of the village of Celt, an unincorporated community in northeastern Dallas County, Missouri, and the same distance to the east of Only, Missouri, which was the name of a populated place, with a post office between 1907 and 1919, also in Russell Township.[15] Only is on State Road O, off of Chapel Bluff Road as it emerges from the Niangua Hills. [1] Only is to the immediate south of the historical village known as Dry Ridge where a school remained into the late 1920s. Another now extinct village by the same name was on the eastern side of the Niangua.
The Wiley Gott Cemetery, established 1868, and the Mills Cemetery, established 1888, are south of Edith, 1.8 linear miles and 3.2 miles, respectively, the southernmost burial sites in Camden County.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Overlay, Fauna R. "Place Names Of Five South Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943. https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/handle/10355/74341
- ^ "Camden County | The State Historical Society of Missouri". collections.shsmo.org. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ a b USGS National Map, Green Gables, Missouri.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ Post Offices. Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ^ "Pleasant Grove Cemetery in Camden County, Missouri". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Old Roach/Union Electric Cemetery Transcription". www.looktothepast.com. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Roach History". The Roach Rattler. 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2024-11-05.
- ^ "BIBLIO | Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery, L.M. (Lucy Maud) | Illustrated by Elizabeth R. Withington | 1926 | L.C. Page, and Company". www.biblio.com. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
- ^ Erickson, Kurt (2021-10-05). "With river frontage, pond and dormitory, Missouri looks to lease old state youth facility". STLtoday.com. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
- ^ Missouri Department of Social Services. Compliance Report, National PREA Resource Center, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice. https://dss.mo.gov/reports/prison-rape-elimination-act-reports/prea-audit-full-compliance-reports/2015/CY-2015-PREA-Audit-Green-Gables-Lodge.pdf
- ^ McCarty, Jim (2023-08-21). "Tunnel Dam". Rural Missouri. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Camden County MO Schools". www.looktothepast.com. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
- ^ "Geographic Names Information System". edits.nationalmap.gov. Retrieved 2024-11-03.
