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The following are a listing of available Publications and Journals from the Historical Society (order form)

 
BEFORE THE DAM WATERS Story and pictures of Old Linn Creek by T. Victor Jeffries                                            $5.00
CAMDEN COUNTY HISTORY by Lucille Keller Harpham   $5.00

 EARLY HISTORY OF CAMDEN COUNTY

 $20.00 

Natural Description
Aborigines
Settlement
County Organization
Present Boundaries
Official, Judicial And Statistical
Statistics
County Revenue
The Courts
The Civil War & Slicker War
Towns And Villages
Educational Interests
Ecclesiastical
Biographical Section

 
2000 GLIMPSES OF HISTORY $8.00 
 Coming Soon Glimpses of History #2 

THE METEROITE IN DECATURVILLE

 $4.00


Following are editions of the CAMDEN COUNTY HISTORIAN The Journal of the Camden County Historical Society compiled by members of the Society

Vol. I Summer 1963 (Reprinted 1999) The First One Hundred Years                                                                     $7.00

Indians

Ozark Lore
Early Settlers
Memories of Old Linn Creek
Excerpts from the Diary of W.E. Sharp…when called to Jefferson City on
Grand Jury duty in 1892

 
Vol. II 1969 Early Days in Linn Creek                                                                                                                $7.00

Governor McClurg’s Mansion

Movement of the County Seat
The First Jail
A Court House Built
Early Trails
Coming of the Steamboats
Civil War Days
Reconstruction Days
The Lumber Industry
Upper Town Reborn
The first Church in Linn Creek After the Civil War
The Funeral of Frank Moore

A New School in Built
Early Postal Service
The First Newspaper in Linn Creek
The First Telephone Line
The Camden County Bank in Organized
The Diary of W. E. Sharp

 
Vol. III January 1972     Early Days in Camden County$7.00 

History of Camden County, 1889 Natural Description

A review of the Mineral Resources and Early Mining in Camden County
Mines, Minerals and J.W. Vincent
Galena Prospecting in Camden County, 1846
J.W. McClurg, Miner, Merchant and Governor
History of Camden County 1889
The Indians of Camden County
In Memory of Nelle Mae Moulder
The Great Flood of 1882

 
Vol. IV July 1972 (cover) Mr. Charles Wescott, First Postmaster of Macks Creek, MO                                            $7.00 

Old Salt Road
Ha Ha Tonka Has Bold History
The Hidden Past of Ha Ha Tonka
Lake Gunter
Camping at Ha Ha Tonka

A Spring Happening
Chronology of Ha Ha Tonka
Bushwhacking

Tornado of 1862

By Jupiter

Wholesale Murder
Cholera Along the Osage

Zebra

Coakley's Cave
The History of Macks Creek, Part 1 (reprint)

 
Vol. V July 1976 Revised 2000   Harold's Mill$7.00 

Toronto by Wealthy Rainwater, 1936
A Pioneer Teacher or Molly Morgan Meads
“Grandpa” – Heston Perry “Heck” Cullen
The Hon. Sid C. Roach
George W. Osborn-Pioneer Educator/Rural Carrier
The Blankenship Family & The Civil War
Governor Joseph W. McClurg
The Garrison Family
Hines M.E. Chapel

 

Vol. VI 1977 History of Camdenton    

$7.00 

The Way It Was

In The Beginning

The Growing Years

The Way It Is

Petition By Citizens

Law For Moving Of A County Seat

Mayors Of Camdenton

The Camden County Bank

Joseph Vause Foster

Clinton E. Webb

Hobart Parish

The Bankson – Woolery House

History Of The Camdenton Schools

The Community Christian Church

The Camdenton United Methodist Church

History Of The First Baptist Church

St. Anthony Catholic Church

Camden County Rustic-Central Missouri Leader

The Reveille

 
 Vol. VII 1979-80 Railroad Tie Making Camden County    

$7.00

Rooffener Bluff Tie Chute

Climax Springs Recalled

Voices from the Past
Dogwood Festival
Myette Church & School

Folklore and Superstitions
Camden County Government – The Linn Creek Years
Personal Stories of Camden County Pioneers

 
Vol. VIII 1980 Looking Back at Old Linn Creek       $7.00

Comparison Map of 1904-1980

Looking Back at “Old” Linn Creek

Bagnell Dam

Linn Creek – Today

Map of Camden county

Battle of Munday's Hollow

 
Vol. IX 1981 Along the Banks of the Niangua River   $7.00 

Families: Bunch, Laughlin, Hanks, Yadon, Capps, Other Neighbors
Forest Grove or Laughlin Church
The School
Vignettes
Sketches by George Osborn
Oscar Jones
Photographs of Bagnel School, Homes & People

Impact of the "Great Osage Project" upon the Environment & the People

 
Vol. X 1983 The Claibornes   $7.00 

Pleasand Hill &Tunnel Dam Area
Towns That Were
The Wet Glaze Community

Glaize City, Dodson Family, Samuel Gibson Family

Camp Ground Church

Armstrong

 

 
Vol. XI 1984 Pioneer Doctor    $7.00 

Home in the Ozarks
George Loomis King Family
The Pope Family
Stone Lake
The Mansfield Home
William Burns Family
First Roach School House
Decaturville School
Mt. Zion School
New Freedom School
The Foster Family

 
Vol. XII 1985-1987 Ha Ha  Tonka                                                                                                                 $20.00 

Indians

Majesty And Mystique A Natural Heritage

The Great Chasm And The Spring

The Grist Site, The Island, And Trout Glen

The Town On The Hill

Gunter Ha Ha Tonka School

The Dream

Bill Snyder Story: A Personal History

The Snyders We Knew

The Lakeside Resort Remembered

Memories Of Ha Ha Tonka

The Burning Of Ha Ha Tonka Castle & Tower

The Park

Lt. Thomas Wybrant Lodge

Biographical Sketches

 
Vol. XIII 1992 The Salsman Family    $12.00 

The Nellda
A Family Excursion
Burnt Mill of the Little Niangua River
History of Montreal School
East Ha Ha Tonka or Orwigtown
Murder at Ha Ha Tonka
Osage Iron Works
John White
Facts from the Past
Lon King, as I remember him
Early Rural Schools of Camden County
Black Pioneer Families of Camden County
Camden County Slave Schedule of 1860
Afro-American Families of Camden County 1870
Post Offices & Postmasters of Camden County 1840-1931

 

Vol. XIV 1998 A historical Picture Album of the Camden County Area                                            $7.50 
Vol. XV 1999 “Camden County: Our Heritage, Our Hope” $12.00

An original play depicting Camden County from the time of the Indians to the present. Written by Helen & Robert Branyan

 
Vol. XVI 2000 Volume I – Civil War         $12.00

Missouri’s Civil War History
The Rebellion
Osage Regiment of Home Guards
Munday’s Hollow and Other Troops
The Blankenship Family
Civil War Troop Crosses Osage River
Affair at Linn Creek, October 14, 1861
Headquarters Camp McClurg, October 16, 1861
Joseph W. McClurg’s Civil War Sketch
Joseph W. McClurg’s Civil War Letter
The Civil War Children
Excerpt: “Camden County, Our Heritage, Our Hope”
Mace Cemetery
Currency and the Confederacy
Civil War Slang
“Black Dutch”
Letters from James T. Dobbins, Union Soldier
Ozark Lore
Civil War Soldiers, Camden County, Partial Listing
Alfred Fayant, Soldier
Grand Army of the Republic Retirement Home
Old Glory
Rally Around the Flag

 
                                                                                                                                                                         

 Vol. XVII  2004  $12.00

A Short Tour of Camden County
Historic Post Offices in Camden County
Carry-on Camp for Girls

Governor Joseph W. McClurg
Lake of the Ozarks: A Vanishing Arcadian Paradise                                                              
                                                             

 Vol. XVIII   2007$12.00 

Missouri’s New National Park Beautiful Hahatonka
My Life in Shawnee Bend and the Story of the Miller/Shawnee Bend Cemetery
Our Old Pioneers, A Memorial Address by Hon. J. W. Armstrong at the Hillhouse Graveyard
Olendorf Park, The Little Highway 54 Roadside Park You May Never Have Visited
The Legends of Joseph W. McClurg – A Man Called “Mac”
The Memoir’s of Edna Jackson
The History of the United Linn Creek Methodist Church
Profiles / Reports/ Short Subjects

 
 Vol. XIX 2009

True stories by Norine Albers, Lake Media

Also sold through the Historical Society but not published by the Museum

 LEST WE FORGET II $10.00

A publication listing the cemeteries and their census information for the Bussell Township

area of Camden County    Editors Varner & Young

Gone but Not Forgotten

$20.00

Another cemetery publication covering the townships of Auglaise and Jackson   Don & Judy Varner

Lake of the Ozarks, The Early Years$20.00

Written by H. Dwight Weaver

Lake of the Ozarks, Vintage Vacation Paradise

 

Written by H. Dwight Weaver

$20.00
 A STOUTLAND by Fances Shepard Metzager$18.95
THE KALEIDOSCOPE HISLLS $30.00 
HILLBILLIES REDNECKS REBELS (And Other Nice People)$5.00
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY OF LAKE OF THE OZARKS by H. Dwight Weaver
$20.00
 

LIMB OF THE JUDAS TREE
    by Robert Dean Anderson

$29.95 
 
ASHES THE YEAR THEY BURNED OLD LINN CREEK 
    by Robert Dean Anderson
$26.00
THE BOTTOM OF THE LAKE
    by Robert Dean Anderson
$25.00
MURDER ON ROUSE HILL
  by Alan Terry Wright
$19.00 

AIN’T NO SUCH ANIMAL

  by Larry Dablemont

 

$15.00 

RIVERS TO RUN

   by Larry Dablemont                                                                                                                                              

$15.00 

DOGS AND DUCKS AND HAT-RACK BUCKS

   by Larry Dablemont

$15.00 

THE FRONT BENCH REGULARS

   by Larry Dablemont

 $15.00

RIDGE-RUNNER

  by Norten Dablemont as told to Larry Dablemeont

$15.00 
THE GREATEST WILD GOBLERS

$15.00 

MEMORIES FROM MISTY MORNING MARSH

  by Larry Dablemont 

$15.00 
A Compilation of Articles and Pictures from the Camden County Museum Newsletters  




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Camden County Museum, PO Box 19, Linn Creek, MO 65052 

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