Van
Buren
Van Buren, settled as the seat of Ripley County, organized,
1833, became the seat of Carter County when it was organized
from parts of Ripley and Shannon counties, 1859.
Nearby Big Spring State Park, 4582 acres of Ozark grandeur,
founded, 1924, features the natural beauty of the largest
single-orifice, fresh water spring in the U.S.
Big Spring has a maximum flow of 840 million gallons ever 24
hours and a daily average of 250 million gallons. The spring
discharges about 175 tons of limestone in solution daily. 433
feet above sea level, at the base of a 500-foot cliff, the
spring gushes through an impeded opening from an underground
steambed and flows 1,000 feet to Current River, famed
spring-formed, spring-fed Ozark fishing stream. Of the 69
springs in the U.S. having a daily flow of 64,600,000 gallons or
more, 11 are in the Missouri Ozarks.
During the Civil War the Union Army of Southeast Missouri
wintered in the area 1862 - 1863. The Snider House, west of town
is the site of one of several skirmishes.
Erected by the Citizens of Carter County in Memory of our
soldier boys who lost their lives in World War of 1917.
William Thomas Main
Charles O. Marchbank
Oscar Marchbank
George L. Shiffler
Ed Morler
J.L. Kinnard
McSpadden, Charles E.
Morlan, Leslie
Stucker, Walter
Bounds, Charles A.
Veterans of World War II
Asie Boyer
David L. Stucker
Robert L. Randolph
Donald Davis
Chester F. Rodgers
John Lane
Leon A. Bollinger
Gilbert L. Farris
Gordon Rose
Alonzo Robertson
Lloyd Griffin
David Blue
John Levengood
Cecil F. Moss
Milton W. Wilson
Norman E. Roy
Luin W. Sartin
Hardy Robertson
Veterans of Korean War
Ray Murphy
Topel C. Fox
Thomas H. Campbell
Hidden
Log Cabin Museum
Built in 1872
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