![]() Arnhold’s Mill became an early sportsmen’s resort. Its scenic location, abundant game, good fishing and congenial owners attracted sportsmen from across the state. George and Dorotha Arnhold bought Cleman Mill on the Niangua River in Camden County in 1878. Note the folks in the canoe upstream from this icy dam. ) bought the Reveille from his father in 1880 and edited it until his death in 1933. An 1889 county history classified the newspaper he founded as a “spicy journal in the interests of the Republican Party.” The son (J. ![]() S., had worked for Horace Greeley, fought in the Mexican War, been wounded twice by Indians, dug for gold in California, and married an Irish girl in Milwaukee. The caption reads:īefore coming to Missouri in 1866, J. This photo (of a photo) of Joshua Williams (J.W.) Vincent is from page 104 in Damming the Osage. J.W.)Vincent understood full well that occasional spring rises were better for the community than permanent inundation of their homes and the most productive land of the river bottoms. Despite fairly frequent incursions of the Osage into the town’s streets and homes, the editor of the city newspaper, The Reveille, railed against building Bagnell Dam. Perhaps several were of a single event, but Linn Creek was hit with rising waters more than once. We’ve posted a number of flood scenes of Linn Creek on this blog. Hardly a square foot of terra firma is showing! An obvious question comes to mind: what piece of dry ground was the photographer standing on? Perhaps he was precariously perched on another boat? It’s a great image of a watery world. Even today, a flood brings out the photographers. Floods were a dramatic and photogenic affair. Flooding was a regular event in Linn Creek but it didn’t seem to deter people from living there. The Osage could play havoc with your plans. B., all of whom served their country during the late war.īe sure to like Lens & Pen Press on Facebook Judge Moulder had six sons, William G., John B., A. He was one of a family of twelve children, and was afterwards joined by three brothers, Valentine, Silas and Rufus, and by two sisters, Rebecca Capps and Elizabeth Doyle, the latter of whom is still living, on Prairie Hollow, the only surviving member of her father’s family. Moulder, the first of these, came to Lincoln county in 1830, and to Camden (then Pulaski) in the year named, buying a farm on the Niangua, eight miles above Linn Creek, where he lived nearly fifty years, and died in 1886. The Moulder family, since the most numerous and prominent in the county, first arrived in 1837. Vincent, editor of the Linn Creek Reveille, published a series of articles based on accounts from early settlers primarily in Camden and Morgan counties. While we have not identified details of his life, he did come from an established and well-respected family in Camden County. Moulder seems to have been a prolific professional photographer in Linn Creek in the pre-Bagnell Dam era. It was reroofed and stabilized in 1999.”‘ It’s (sic) interior burned by vandals in 1976. A large steel tank on the fifth floor held water for the estate. ![]() Historical marker at the park says, “The first four floors were living quarters for the caretaker’s family. This tower once held living quarters as well as a water tank at the top of the tower. Besides holding the water tank above the house and grounds to facilitate gravity feed to supply the water system of the castle. Water was pumped from the spring far below to a tank at the top of the tower. Snyder’s castle retreat above the Osage River. Stone Water Tower, 80 feet high, at Robert M. “8 miles of L.C.” (probably Linn Creek)īy G. They leave the boats of the country folks a-rockin’ in their wake Now 30-foot go-fast boats, they scream across the lake That Osage River water’s flowing in our veinsįrom the mighty Wah-Zha-Zhe and everyone between Our sons all fish in bass boats and throw away their catch. My brothers and I followed suit ‘til we all left the … Sold his fish in the town from the trunk of his sedan. My daddy fished the big lake that stops at Bagnell Dam. Moonshine boats, midnight floats, the lawman close at hand That Osage River water’s flowing in my veinsįrom the great Wah-Zha-Zhe and everyone between My apologies if there are mistakes!)Ĭapps Landing on the Osage is where they made their home. (This is my own transcription from the video. Acoustic guitar and a haunting harmonica provide a simple but appropriate accompaniment to his original composition. Jimmy Capps posted on Facebook this lyrical music video account of generations of his family and their life along the Osage River since the early 1800s.
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