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1840

The Joplin Creek Valley was named after Reverend Harris G. Joplin who settled on the banks of the creek valley in the 1840’s.

Joplin, city, Jasper and Newton counties, in the Ozark region of southwestern Missouri, United States It lies adjacent to Webb City, near the Kansas and Oklahoma borders. It was settled about 1840 by Tennesseean John Cox, who named it for his friend the Reverend Harris Joplin, a Methodist missionary who was also an early settler.

1900

By the start of the 1900’s Joplin Missouri was becoming a regional hot spot.

1902

These include a tax passed in 1902 for the creation of the first Public Library.

In 1902 this enabled the construction the Carnegie Library.

1926

Kentucky subsequently received the route number 60, and the original Route 60 was changed first to 62 and then to 66 in the final version of the plan, approved on November 11, 1926.

1930

Toward the middle the 1930 the great depression rocked the United States and the thriving city of Joplin was not immune to the effects and may business closed, but Joplin Missouri kept it’s head up.

1937

The elimination of a diversion through Santa Fe in 1937 cut more than 100 miles (160 km) from the route.

1938

Laid in part over preexisting auto trails, Route 66 was thus built in segments, often discontinuous ones, and was not entirely paved until 1938.

1956

Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a few segments of Route 66 had already been superseded by newer, wider, and safer roads.

1979

That Carnegie Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

1985

Route 66 was formally decommissioned on June 27, 1985.

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