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Lowell M. Palmer mammoth factory

Industrial
1900s
c. 1900
East Poplar Bluff
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"About 1900, Lowell M. Palmer purchased from Butler county a large amount of the overflowed timber land between Black and St. Francis rivers and established a mammoth factory in east Poplar Bluff to manufacture staves and heading."

— Source: Deem's History of Butler County Missouri (referenced c. 1900)

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Large industrial stave and heading manufacturing plant.

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