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Meta City History and Growth in Osage County
Meta, a border town in the fertile Sugar Creek valley in Osage County, formed around the Rock Island route and the St. Louis to Kansas City railway. Nathan J. Rowan founded Meta Herald in 1902, the town was incorporated in 1904, and by 1941 the population reached 435 with a growing school system, churches, lodges, and a varied local economy centered on mills, cheese, and services.
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Luis
J. W. Terrill
Belle
Scullen & Francis
St. Louis, Kansas City and Colorado Railway
Rock Island
Dedrick Schriefer
Jos. Friecke
Gerhard Sc
Lucinda (Haskell) Rowan
F. W. Tervit
Meta Herald
Rowan
Herald
W. K. Poston
A. C. Meyer
G. F. Utt
Meta
L. A. Wright
L. C. Shecklesworth
J. M. Wilson
Paul Schulz
T. L. O’brien
H. G L. Burd
W. D. Burd
Beary Wansing
J. M. Barnhart
D. H. West
J. F. Rowan
J. J. Radamacher
O’brien
E. S. Fennessey
John F. Schaefer
Bonnais Mill
St. Louis
Kansas City
C. G. Russler
Osage County
H. Wright
F. A. Losthen
Babbtown
Meeker
Eldon
H. Waggoner
St. Cecilia
A. J. Hoegen
Ralph Johnson
Odd Fellows and
Masonic
Catholic Knights of America
Westphalia
St. Elizabeth
Civic League
Theodore Libbert
N. J. Rowan
H. H. Strop
John Kalaf, Jr
J. J. Schanzmeyer
Virgil Woody
WN. J. Rowan
Clint Jacobs
Ed Wilde
Join Kalaf, Jr
Western Light and Telephone Company
Bagnell Dam
Ozark Central Telephone Company