Site Directory

Browse landmark buildings and places — both standing and lost — with photos, stories, and visiting info.

Historic commercial, civic, and industrial enterprises that shaped Poplar Bluff, linked to their buildings and owners.

Individuals and family groups from Poplar Bluff’s past, drawn from yearbooks, directories, and community submissions.

Community memories, oral histories, and family histories submitted by people who lived them.

Key events from Poplar Bluff’s founding to the present day, organized by decade.

Historic photographs paired with modern views of the same location.

The 1927 tornado that tore through downtown — damage photos, survivor stories, and a memorial to those lost.

Oral history recordings and transcripts from longtime residents sharing their memories.

Interactive map of all historic sites, filterable by category and status.

Self-guided walking tours of Poplar Bluff’s historic downtown and neighborhoods.

Browse digitized Poplar Bluff city directories by year, category, and business name.

Poplar Bluff school yearbooks, digitized and searchable, with extracted student and faculty records.

The historic photograph and video gallery — searchable by era, theme, and neighborhood.

The postcard collection with front and back scans, message transcriptions, postmarks, and publisher details.

Theatre programs, restaurant menus, tickets, brochures, and other paper ephemera with page-by-page viewing.

Books, articles, and documents about Poplar Bluff history, with full text search and source extraction.

Places we’re actively investigating — help us identify locations, dates, and people.

Sign up for updates on the upcoming Rodgers Theatre history book.

Plan your visit to Poplar Bluff’s historic sites, museums, and local businesses.

Test your knowledge with a daily trivia question drawn from real archive records.

Share photos, stories, documents, or corrections — everything goes through an editorial review before publishing.

Historic preservation projects, partners, and how to support saving Poplar Bluff’s heritage.

Latest news, discoveries, and research updates from the Historic Poplar Bluff project.

About Historic Poplar Bluff — our mission, methods, and the team behind the project.

Search across all archive records — sites, people, businesses, stories, postcards, and more — in one place.

Ask questions about Poplar Bluff history and get answers grounded in the archive’s real records.