Mark Twain National Forest (MTNF) is a U.S. National Forest located in the southern half of Missouri. MTNF was established on September 11, 1939. It is named for author Mark Twain, a Missouri native. The MTNF covers 3,068,800 acres (12,419 km2) of which 1,506,100 acres (6,095 km2) is public owned, 78,000 acres (320 km2) of which are Wilderness, and National Scenic River area. MTNF spans 29 counties and represents 11% of all forested land in Missouri. MTNF is divided into six distinct ranger districts: Ava-Cassville-Willow Springs, Eleven Point, Houston-Rolla, Cedar Creek, Poplar Bluff, Potosi-Fredericktown, and the Salem. The six ranger districts actually comprise nine overall unique tracts of forests. Its headquarters are in Rolla, Missouri.
Poplar Bluff is a historic train station in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States, served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system.
The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835. The cabin is protected within a modern museum building that also includes a public reading room, several of Twain's first editions, a handwritten manuscript of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and furnishings from Twain's Connecticut home. The historic site is adjacent to Mark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-made Mark Twain Lake. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Thomas Moore House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1896, and is a 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with Colonial Revival influenced detailing. It has a hipped and gable roof and features a projecting polygonal, two-story bay.
John Archibald Phillips House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1891, and is a 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Queen Anne style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof with fishscale shingles on the gable end and features a one-story, shed roof entry porch with milled and chamfered columns. Surrounding the house is an original cast iron fence. The house was acquired by the Butler County Historical Society in 1985 to serve as a house museum and meeting space.
Moore-Dalton House, also known as the Margaret Harwell Art Museum, is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was originally built in 1883, and remodeled to its present form in 1896. It is a two-story, frame dwelling on a brick and stone foundation. It features a Classical Revival style semi-circular front portico with fluted Ionic columns and a second story balcony. The house was converted to an art museum by the city of Poplar Bluff in 1979.
J. Herbert Moore House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1938, and is a two-story, irregular plan, International Style dwelling of wood and concrete construction with a stuccoed exterior. It has an attached garage and carport. It features original multi-light steel casement windows and original structural glass blocks.
Alfred W. Greer House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1915, and is a 2 1/2-story, rectangular plan, American Craftsman style brick dwelling with a 2 1/2-story side wing. It has a gable roof with wide eaves and exposed rafters and features large brick porch piers on the main facade.
Wheatley Public School is a historic school building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1928, and is a two-story, "U"-plan, Colonial Revival style brick building with a central gymnasium. It sits on a cast concrete foundation and has a flat roof. It was constructed to serve the African-American student population and remained so until the end of segregation in 1958.
Williamson-Kennedy School is a historic school building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1922, and is a three-story, rectangular plan, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a cast concrete foundation and has a flat roof. The two primary entrances located in one-story projecting wings at the corners of the building and features cast concrete Doric orderpilasters.
St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad Depot is a historic train station located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. The station was built in 1928 by the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. It is a one-story, Mission Revival style brick building sheathed in textured stucco. It sits on a concrete foundation, has a gable and hipped Spanish tile roof, and features two interior brick and stucco chimneys. The building is presently occupied as a railroad museum.
Zehe Building, also known as the Ozark Hotel, was a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1911, and is a three-story, rectangular brick building with Colonial Revival style design influences. It had a hipped roof and sits on a stone and concrete foundation. The central bay of the front facade features concrete balconies on both upper floors. The building contained a hotel and other businesses until the 1980s. As of 1/2018 it no longer exists.
Wright-Dalton-Bell-Anchor Department Store Building, also known as the Dalton Store and F.W. Woolworth Store, is a historic commercial building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1927-1928, and is a two-to three-story, rectangular brick building with terra cotta embellishments. It features shaped parapets with terra cotta coping and quatrefoil insets and a decorative terra cotta signboard and storefront surround. An F.W. Woolworth occupied the building from 1947 to about 1987.
Butler County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1928, and is a three-story, Classical Revival style brick building of cast concrete construction. Each side is nine bays wide, with the central five bays having two-story engaged Doric order columns and pilasters on the top two floors.
Poplar Bluff Public Library is a historic library building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1936, and is a one-story, Colonial Revival style brick building. It sits on a full basement and has a gable roof.
Poplar Bluff Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses 14 contributing commercial buildings in the central business district of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1930s, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Fraternal Building (1928) and Begley Building (1908).
South Sixth Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing structures in a residential section of Poplar Bluff. The district developed between about 1880 and 1917, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Colonial Revival style architecture. Notable buildings include the Luke F. Quinn House (1884), the Warren S. Randall House (1889), and John C. Corrigan House (1917).
Williams-Gierth House, also known as The Castle House is a historic home located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1892, and is a large 2 1/2-story, irregular plan, Shingle Style dwelling. It features a reconstructed wraparound porch, two turrets, and a hipped roof with polygonal dormer.
Merritt Violette House, also known as Merritt "Dad" Violette House, is a historic home located at Florida, Monroe County, Missouri. It was built in 1902-1903, and is a one-story, eclectic vernacular Queen Anne style frame dwelling with attic. It is sheathed in clapboard and fishscale shingles and has a complex hipped and gable roof. The house has a cross in square plan. It was the home of Merritt Violette, who saved Mark Twain's birthplace for the nation and instigated the Mark Twain State Park, and who built two camps for the Camp Fire Girls.
