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Fisk
Civic
1900s
eastern Butler County near the St. Francis River, seven miles northeast of Poplar Bluff, just south of Highway 60
Verbatim Passage from Source
"Fisk is a small, but still thriving town, in eastern Butler County near the St. Francis River. The town originated as a stop on the "CAT," the Cairo, Arkansas and Texas Railroad.¹¹ Samuel J. Fisk operated saw mills on both sides of the river in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century."
— Source: Butler County, Missouri Historical and Architectural Survey
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Fisk originated as a railroad stop and Samuel J. Fisk operated sawmills there.
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