Nodaway County is a county located in the northwest part of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 23,370. Its county seat is Maryville. The county was organized February 14, 1845 and is named for the Nodaway River. It is the largest in area of the counties added to Missouri in the 1836 Platte Purchase and the fourth-largest county in Missouri.
Maryville is a city and county seat of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 11,972. Maryville is home to Northwest Missouri State University, Northwest Technical School, and the former home of the Missouri Academy of Science, Mathematics and Computing. Maryville is the second largest city wholly within the boundaries of the 1836 Platte Purchase which expanded Missouri's borders into former Indian Territory in northwest Missouri.
Skidmore is a city in western Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The population was 284 at the 2010 Census. The small farming community is known for the unsolved murder of Ken Rex McElroy. Skidmore also has a yearly "Punkin' Show."
Maryville High School is the public high school for Maryville, Missouri. It is the only institution to have the Spoofhound for a mascot. It is a Missouri State High School Activities Association Class III school. The present high school building on the southwest side of Maryville opened in the 1965-66 school year.
Raymond Gunn was an African American man killed by a mob in Maryville, Missouri, United States, after being accused of killing a white woman.
Albert Pickett Morehouse was the 26th Governor of Missouri from 1887 to 1889.
Amos Graham was the first Nodaway County, Missouri, clerk. The town of Graham, Missouri, is named for him. The town of Maryville, Missouri, is named for his wife Mary.
The Nodaway County Historical Society Museum is a museum in Maryville, Missouri telling the history of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States.
The David Gordon House and Collins Log Cabin were two historic homes located at Columbia, Missouri. The David Gordon House is a two-story, frame I-house. The 13-room structure incorporated original construction from about 1823 and several additions from the 1830s, 1890s and 1930s. The Collins Log Cabin was built in 1818, and is a single pen log house of the story and a loft design. They represent some of the first permanent dwellings in Columbia. The house, located in what is now Stephens Lake Park burned after arson in the early 1990s. The log cabin survived has been relocated from Stephens Lake Park to the campus of the Boone County Historical Society.
The George Caleb Bingham House is a historic house, part of Arrow Rock State Historic Site in Arrow Rock, Missouri, United States. Built in 1837, it was the principal residence of portraitist and landscape painter George Caleb Bingham (1811–79) from 1837 to 1845. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
The Maryville Forum is a weekly newspaper published Thursdays in Maryville, Missouri, United States. In June 2021, the newspaper was purchased by Ken and Traci Garner via their publishing company Garner Media Holdings, LLC from former owners Phil and Chaundee Cobb of Cobb Publishing. Previously, the newspaper, also formerly known as "Maryville Daily Forum" was acquired by its former general manager Phil Cobb via his Cobb Publishing company from GateHouse Media in December 2013.
Thomas Nelson House, also known as Forest Hill, is a historic home located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built in 1843, and is a two-story, Greek Revival style brick dwelling with a rear ell. Symmetrical, flanking one-story wings were added about 1946. It has a side gable roof and features a two-story gabled, pedimented front portico, constructed about 1853. The house is in the George Caleb Bingham painting "Forest Hill the Nelson Homestead."
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This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nodaway County, Missouri.
Thomas Gaunt House, also known as The President's Home, is a historic home located at Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built about 1865, and is a two-story, modified "L"-plan, brick dwelling in the late Greek Revival style. It has a shallow pitched hipped roof with a broad cornice. It features Neoclassical porches supported by grouped Tuscan order columns. It is owned by Northwest Missouri State University, and is occupied by the president of the university.
Frank House, also known as The Newby House, is a historic home located at Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built about 1890, and is a two-story, Italianate style asymmetrical frame dwelling. It measures approximately 45 feet long and 38 feet wide. It features a full-width front porch with carpenter trim columns and decorative scrollwork on the gable ends. Also on the property is a contributing outbuilding.
Nodaway County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse located at Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was designed by the architectural firm Eckel & Mann. Construction began in 1882, but it was not completed and ready for occupancy until the spring of 1883. It is a two-story, High Victorian Italianate style rectangular brick building. It measures approximately 111 feet, 6 inches, long and 76 feet wide. It has a truncated hipped roof with massive cornice. It features a tower, recessed portico, and ornamental stonework.
Possum Walk Hotel is a historic hotel building located near Burlington Junction, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built between 1873 and 1875, and is a two-story, Italianate style "L"-plan brick building. It features a long shed roof porch on the facade of the ell extension and a small porch with balcony at the main entrance.
Big Pump, also known as Maryville Oil Co., was a historic service station located at Maryville, Nodaway County, Missouri. It was built in 1937, and was a 21-foot high, Art Deco style structure. It had wood framing and sheet metal siding shaped to resemble a gasoline pump of the 1937 period.
West Nodaway R-I School District is a school district headquartered in unincorporated Nodaway County, Missouri, near Burlington Junction.
