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Date not listedOpen record ↗Living source-backed graph of Memphis population, major projects, public money and decision markers. Historical points are added only when a public source verifies them.
2026-08-24Open record ↗Fair calendar documenting the 2026 Scotland County Fair and participation-oriented 4-H/FFA shows, recognition and community events at the Memphis fairgrounds.
2026-07-04Open record ↗Official City of Memphis webpage containing the December 4, 2025 open-meeting notice and minutes, including attendance, motions, person-level votes, department reports, and the vote to enter closed session.
2025-12-04Open record ↗Chamber events page documenting recurring community traditions including Pancake Days, movie nights, Peanut Days, Antique Days activities, Safe Stop, holiday open house and Lighting of the Square.
2023-01-01Open record ↗Official Missouri 1970 Census Number of Inhabitants report containing 1970 and 1960 population counts used in the Community Long View.
1971-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO describes the Pershing Highway/Triple Star route through Memphis as an early automobile-era highway promotion that was never developed. This is useful accountability history: promotion and branding did not necessarily produce infrastructure.
1920-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO documents an academy operating in Memphis in 1867, adding an early education and civic-institution milestone to the community timeline.
1867-01-01Open record ↗Missouri Digital Heritage documents the Memphis Reveille beginning September 9, 1865 and provides digitized issues from 1865-1869 and 1873-1877, creating a direct source for Scotland County civic and commercial history.
1865-09-09Open record ↗SHSMO describes Concord Church south of Memphis as a union church organized after the Civil War by Southern Methodists and Cumberland Presbyterians, later joined by a Christian Church group, with a building erected around 1876. It is evidence of different groups pooling local capacity around a shared institution.
1865-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records Memphis as incorporated in 1853, later discontinued during the Civil War, reincorporated in 1864, and incorporated as a city in 1885. These milestones show repeated local institution-building rather than a single founding event.
1853-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records Prospect Grove as a post office from 1853 to 1904 and notes that by the 1938 place-name study little remained beyond the school. This provides a documented example of a small settlement losing commercial and postal functions over time.
1853-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records the Mudd Settlement Catholic congregation as established as a mission by 1852 in northwest Scotland County and served from a neighboring county, illustrating regional sharing of scarce institutional capacity.
1852-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records Richland Baptist Church south of Hitt as organized in 1849 and still active at the time of the source compilation, illustrating durable community institution-building.
1849-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO identifies the Mety and Gorin Mill as the first wool carding mill at Memphis in 1846, an early example of local productive capacity rather than simple retail trade.
1846-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO place-name research says Sand Hill had early stores, settlement and trade, but ceased growing after the county seat was placed at Memphis because Memphis was more centrally located. This is a direct historical example of government-location decisions shifting community growth.
1843-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records Prairie View Methodist Episcopal Church as organized in 1840, with a frame building erected around 1856 and continued activity into the twentieth century source period. This is a long-running example of local institution building.
1840-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO place-name history describing the establishment of county government at Memphis, subsequent town layout, courthouse construction and incorporation milestones.
1838-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records that Bible Grove Christian Church organized in 1836 from meetings dating to 1834 and that its building was also used as a schoolhouse by 1842. This is an early local example of one community asset serving multiple public and civic needs.
1836-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records trace Memphis to an 1835 cabin settlement, county-seat establishment, 1843 town survey, 1853 incorporation, 1864 reincorporation and 1885 city incorporation.
1835-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO place-name research identifies a Memphis-La Grange trail/road connecting two early settlements by 1835, showing how early transportation links supported settlement and exchange.
1835-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO records meetings at Bible Grove as early as 1834, organization of a Christian church in 1836, and use of the church building as a schoolhouse by 1842. This is evidence of residents pooling religious and educational infrastructure before formal public systems were extensive.
1834-01-01Open record ↗SHSMO place-name research records that the first election in the locality later associated with Scotland County was held at Sand Hill in 1833 to elect a congressman and Lewis County officers. This is useful as an early civic-participation record.
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