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 Douglas County Sesquicentennial Time Capsule - Ava, Mo. Posted by:  iconions
N 36° 57.082 W 092° 39.561
15S E 530329 N 4089531
This time capsule is located west of the north entrance to the Douglas County, Missouri Courthouse - 203 SE 2nd Ave in Ava, Mo.
Waymark Code: WMVG4P
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2017
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DOUGLAS COUNTY SESQUICENTENNIAL
Time Capsule
October 19, 20, 21, 2007
To be opened 2057
This time capsule is located west of the north entrance to the Douglas County, Missouri Courthouse. It is buried under a granite marker. No information as to who placed can be found, however, best guess would be the Douglas County Commissioners.
Information on the founding of the county and some history can be found on the front side of the historical marker on the city square:
DOUGLAS COUNTY
-----(state map of Missouri)-----
Here in the heartland of the Missouri
Ozarks, Douglas County was organized in
1857, and named for statesman Stephen A.
Douglas. Southern pioneers, attracted by
forested hills, abundant game, spring-fed
streams, fertile valleys, were first settlers
in mid-1830’s. Some 692 prehistoric mounds
have been found in the county which is in
territory long utilized by various Indian
tribes and claimed by the Osage until 1808.
Ava, the county seat, was laid out 1870,
and named for a Biblical city by James
Hailey who with Judge Martin and Lock
Alsup selected the site. Ave was founded
to succeed Arno which replaced Vera Cruz,
first county seat, when it lost its central
location by county boundary change. A
later change left Ava 12 miles off center.
Ava’s first post office moved there, 1872,
from nearby Militia Springs where a body
of Union troops wintered in the Civil War.
During the war, Douglas County, largely
pro-Union, suffered a number of skirmishes.
several occurring in and around Vera Cruz,
headquarters of Home Guard unit. Through
the war, guerilla bands roamed the area
(see other side)
Erected by State Historical Society of Missouri
and State Highway Commission, 1961
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