Eureka Mills

ID: 322 ~ Source: Daily Journal of Commerce November 4, 1871 ~ Creator: Daily Journal of Commerce November 4, 1871 ~ Date: November 4, 1871

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

Print of Eureka Mills printed in the Daily Journal of Commerce November 4, 1871

This file appears in: Blind Boone in Warrensburg

Blind Boone in Warrensburg

By University of Central Missouri Department of History, Dr. Jon E. Taylor

When Willie was eight, Rachel Boone married Harrison Hendricks and moved into his home, which sat "just back of the old Land Fike's Mill [Eureka Mills] on Mill Street." Melissa Fuell Cuther noted: "The house was a one-room log…