Cascade, Missouri
Encyclopedia
Cascade is an unincorporated community
in northeastern Wayne County
, Missouri
, United States
. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route
M about eighteen miles west of Marble Hill
.
The community of Cascade prospered for several decades serving as the North end of a 16-mile railroad spur, established to transport the surrounding acres of Virgin Pine timber to the mills at Greenville. By the beginning of the 20th century Cascade had surpassed its neighbor a mile to the east, the original Lutheran community of Gravelton. Cascade could not only boast of a train depot but also a hotel, bank, furniture factory, several stores and a village telephone system. The professor had also erected on the church property, a two-story four room, educational building. Establishing a board of directors and chartering with the state of Missouri "Concordia College" a school of higher education equivalent of today's junior college.
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
in northeastern Wayne County
Wayne County, Missouri
Wayne County is a county located in the Ozark Foothills Region of Southeast Missouri in the United States. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the population was 13,259. A 2008 estimate, however, showed the population to be 12,652. The county seat is Greenville...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route
Missouri Supplemental Route
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in addition to the regular routes...
M about eighteen miles west of Marble Hill
Marble Hill, Missouri
Marble Hill is a fourth-class city in central Bollinger County in Southeast Missouri in the United States. Located at the intersection of State Highway 34 and State Highway 51, it is the largest city in Bollinger and serves as the county seat . The population was 1,502 at the 2000 census...
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History
It was established sometime in the 1880s on a portion of the farm of Dr. L. M. Wagner, a professor and the pastor of the nearby Zion Lutheran church. Dr. Wagner an ambitious young minister persuaded to come to Missouri from the Kentucky Synod to help heal the broken congregation at the end of the Civil War. The professor named the community in reference to the series of cascades in a nearby creek.The community of Cascade prospered for several decades serving as the North end of a 16-mile railroad spur, established to transport the surrounding acres of Virgin Pine timber to the mills at Greenville. By the beginning of the 20th century Cascade had surpassed its neighbor a mile to the east, the original Lutheran community of Gravelton. Cascade could not only boast of a train depot but also a hotel, bank, furniture factory, several stores and a village telephone system. The professor had also erected on the church property, a two-story four room, educational building. Establishing a board of directors and chartering with the state of Missouri "Concordia College" a school of higher education equivalent of today's junior college.