hestory of west plains

west plains first settler was a hunter named adams

the black burn was built in 1876 and burned down in 1885

WEST PLAINS WAS CALLED BOOM TOWN not west plains when west plains stayed out of the civil war it had been taken and renamed it west plains

before it was west plains it was called boom town

the railroad took four years to make

the bank was built in 1889

the Howell county gazette building was made for news to get out and

one of the buildings destroyed in the dance hall explosion