
Each year, the Nodaway County Historical Society inducts a new member to its “Stairway of Stars.”

Each year, the Nodaway County Historical Society inducts a new member to its “Stairway of Stars.”


Here are a couple of terrain maps of Mozingo Lake/Creek. Mozingo Creek is only 8.3 miles long. It begins northeast of Pickering, above 170th Street, and empties into the 102 River at 295th Street. It is difficult to show terrain in the rolling prairie. The map on the left, exaggerated 50x, shows Maryville on the bluffs above the 102 and shows the Mozingo training into The map on right is exaggerated 40x and shows the source of the creek northeast of Pickering.

Source Image: Published in Maryville Daily Forum March 10, 1976
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In 1961, Maryville’s two Catholic Churches, St. Patrick’s and St. Mary’s, merged into St. Gregory Barbarigo. The merger was spurred by St. Patrick’s being physically condemned. The new church was named for St. Gregory the bishop in the home diocese of Pope John XXIII. At the time, it was reported as the first church in the world to be named for St. Gregory.
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This is a gallery of images for an article on Burlington Jct. Mineral Springs Sanatorium (1888-1920), while I work on the story.

Burlington Jct’s most colorful character was Samuel Corken, who operated a sanitarium 1888 and 1920 and marketed mineral water cures from water called “Nek-Roc” (Corken spelled backwards). Here’s a 1911 profile of his early days.
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