Carthage, Missouri Carthage, Missouri Location inside Jasper County and Missouri Location inside Jasper County and Missouri Carthage is a town/city in Jasper County, Missouri, United States.
Carthage Route 66 Drive-In Carthage was chosen as the county seat, the region cleared and the town platted in 1842. The town/city was titled after ancient Carthage. By the time of the American Civil War, there were over 500 residents, a brick and contemporary courthouse, and a several businesses.
The "Second Battle of Carthage" occurred in October 1863 when Union troops confronted Confederate troops north of town and forced them to return to Arkansas.
The town experienced minor skirmishes and attacks throughout the war; pro-Confederate guerrillas burned most of the town/city (including the courthouse) in September 1864.
Historical accounts, such as Jasper County, Missouri in the Civil War (1923) by Col.
Town inhabitants started a foundry, furniture factory, woolen and grain mills, a plow works and various liveries and other businesses. Leggett & Platt, now a Fortune 500 business still based in Carthage, was established in 1883.
Nearby lead mines and limestone quarries also contributed momentous wealth and Carthage became one of the most prosperous suburbs in the area.
Residents poured their cash into ornate Victorian-style homes, many of which are now part of the Carthage South District, which was titled to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The Jasper County Courthouse, also on the National Register of Historic Places, was assembled of Carthage contemporary in 1894-95.
The limestone is difficult enough to be polished into "Carthage marble" and was used in both the interior and exterior of the state capitol building in Jefferson City, Missouri.
In the late 20th century, the town began actively courting tourism, emphasizing its history (the Battle of Carthage, Victorian architecture, and Route 66), as well as its adjacency to the Precious Moments hotel and store, along with the prominent nation music destination Branson, Missouri.
Carthage is positioned at 37 10 4 N 94 18 54 W (37.167773, -94.314958). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.69 square miles (30.28 km2), of which, 11.65 square miles (30.17 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. Carthage is part of the Joplin, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
There were 5,169 homeholds of which 38.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 14.6% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 6.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 33.9% were non-families.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.46% White, 2.39% African American, 1.05% Native American, 1.59% Asian, 0.21% Pacific Islander, 6.65% from other competitions, and 4.94% from two or more competitions.
There were 4,813 homeholds of which 30.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 49.5% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.4% were non-families.
(a manufacturer of home electric lighting implements), Otts Foods, Schreiber Foods, and Goodman Manufacturing (all producing various food products) and the Carthage Underground, formerly a quarry, which now serves as a storage region with climate control for various products.
Carthage was well known in the early 20th century for the fine-grained, extremely dense grey limestone, "Carthage Marble", which came from that mine and was used for various enhance buildings throughout the US, including the Capitol Building in Jefferson City and the Jasper County Courthouse.
Carthage has a several food manufacturers and refining plants in and around the city.
In Jan 2008, a new city-owned hospital, Mc - Cune-Brooks, opened and the old facility has been renovated for use by the Carthage Water and Electric Plant.
Dyno Nobel and Buckley Powder Company co-owns an explosives plant a couple miles southwest of Carthage.
As noted above, Carthage was the site of the Battle of Carthage, the first official engagement of the American Civil War, on July 5, 1861.
Carthage is positioned on Historic U.S.
Since 1966, Carthage has held a festival each October called the Maple Leaf Festival. The seven-day festival is titled for the many maple trees that expanded in the town, whose leaves change into bright colors such as red, orange, and yellow in the fall.
Many citizens from suburbs from all over Jasper County and further attend the parade, bringing applicants for the parade such as hometown bands, businesses, spookhouses, tv stations, and various entertainment.
Since 1978, Carthage has hosted the annual Marian Days celebration for Vietnamese American Catholics.
Histories of Carthage include Ward L.
Schrantz's Jasper County Missouri in the Civil War (Carthage, Missouri: The Carthage, Missouri Kiwanis Club, 1923), History of Jasper County, Missouri (Des Moines, Iowa: Mills & Company, 1883) and Images of America: Carthage, Missouri (Chicago, Illinois: Arcadia Publishing, 2000).
Composer James Scott, regarded as one of the three most meaningful composers of classic ragtime, lived in Carthage from 1901 to 1906.
Demand for the music of Scott, who began to compose while living in Carthage, convinced Dumars to publish Scott's "A Summer Breeze" in 1903. The government of Carthage is represented by a Mayor-council government.
Carthage is divided into five wards which are represented by two members.
Carthage is in Missouri's 7th congressional precinct and is being represented in the United States Congress by Billy Long since 2010.
In the Missouri House of Representatives, Carthage is in the 127th District and since 2008 is being represented by Tom Flanigan, a former Carthage City Council alderman.
The Carthage, Missouri Police Department is the law enforcement agency in the town/city of Carthage, Missouri.
Annie White Baxter (1894-1944), first female propel official in Missouri, first woman propel county clerk in the United States Webster (1922 1990), former Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, a state senator Carthage, Missouri Chamber of Commerce - America's Maple Leaf City! How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named.
The State Historical Society of Missouri.
"Odd places give Missouri suburbs foreign names".
A history of Jasper County, Missouri, and its citizens , Volume 1 By Joel Thomas Livingston, Page 42 Sanborn Maps for Missouri:Carthage, University of Missouri Digital Library.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Because of this, it makes Carthage the third biggest city in the state for a week or so.
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Carthage Convention & Visitors Bureau "Carthage, Missouri: The Most Beautiful City in the West" 1906 promotional booklet at Joplin Public Library Historic maps of Carthage in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Battle of Carthage State Historic Site Municipalities and communities of Jasper County, Missouri, United States County seats in Missouri Missouri in the American Civil War
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