Eureka Mills owned by Land, Fike, and Company, 1877

ID: 360 ~ Source: https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/2285/rec/1 ~ Creator: Atlas Map of Johnson County Missouri. St. Louis: St. Louis Atlas Publishing Company, 1877. ~ Date: 1877

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Eureka Mills owned by Land, Fike, and Company, 1877 — https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/2285/rec/1

The Hendrix family one-room cabin was located near Eureka Mills, which was owned by Land, Fike, and Company. The mills is noted by the star on the plat map.

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…