County of city hall: Cole County
Location of city hall: 13203 Railroad Avenue
Phone: Phone: (573) 782-3511
Fax: (573) 782-3511
Mayor: Sharon Morgan
City Hall Hours: Monday - Friday: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Population: 785
"The pyramid-shaped roof just to the right of center is the Russellville Hotel, owned and operated by the Schneider Brothers." ~ Cole County History
The photo this caption came from was from 1912. And city hall is part of that old building.
"Russellville is a city in Cole County, Missouri, United States. The population was 807 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. The school of Russellville is Cole County R-1 and is home to the Russellville Indians it is also the home of the 2010 & 2011 Lady Indians State Cross Country State Champs." ~ Wikipedia
"Russellville, in the Moreau Township, the second town in size and importance in Cole County, is eighteen miles southwest of Jefferson City, the county seat and state capital, and 142 miles from St. Louis on the Lebanon Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It has four churches, a modern two-story brick school building (where are employed three teachers), an excellent weekly newspaper, flouring mill, bank, large modern brick hotel, livery stable, and, in fact, every convenience and advantage that can be found in a town of much greater pretensions. The merchants are wide awake and progressive, their unusually large stock and low prices drawing to the town trade for many miles in all directions. Most of the business houses are large, modern brick structures. Its healthful location is on the watershed between the North and South Moreau. Its customers are the prosperous and thrifty farmers who till the rich bottoms of the Moreaus, and the splendid wheat-growing and fruit-bearing ridges that lie between these streams. In addition to this great source of wealth (sufficient to support a small city) there is, underlying the surface around town, immense deposits of high-grade lead ore, which is at present undeveloped, but one, the Boaz Mine, which has already added to the wealth of the county more than $50,000. This great source of wealth will unquestionably, when it secures the attention of capital and mining experts, be the means of raising Russellville to one of the largest and most prosperous towns in an eminent degree. It is their broad and well directed efforts that has placed Russellville so far in the lead of other trade centers in the county and made it a most desirable town in which to locate, for those wishing to reap the advantages of a prosperous and growing town, and at the same time enjoy the social and educational advantages of a highly moral and intellectual community." ~ Cole County Illustrated Sketch Book and Directory of Jefferson City and Cole County.
Russellville, Arkansas: Population: 29,840
"Russellville is the county seat and largest city in Pope County, Arkansas, United States, with a 2021 estimated population of 29,338. It is home to Arkansas Tech University. Arkansas Nuclear One, Arkansas' only nuclear power plant is nearby. Russellville borders Lake Dardanelle and the Arkansas River.
"It is the principal city of the Russellville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Pope and Yell counties.
"Before the town was named Russellville, its vicinity was known as Chactas Prairie, The Prairie, or Cactus Flats. Located on the southern edge of the Ozark Mountains and north of the Arkansas River, this setting was an ideal settlement area.
"In the early 19th century, Osage from Missouri hunted frequently in the valley where Russellville is now located. Between 1818 and 1828, the area was within a Cherokee reservation. Under a new treaty concluded on May 6, 1828, the western boundary of Arkansas was established, with seven million acres west of Arkansas in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) provided to the Cherokees "forever." The Cherokees agreed to leave the Arkansas lands within 14 months.
"The first house in what is now Russellville, a one-and-a-half-story hand-hewn log house, was built by J.C. Holledger in 1834 and purchased the next year by Dr. Thomas Russell. One of the first businesses to be established in the town was a store opened in the 1840s by brothers James Madison and Benjamin "B.D.R." Shinn. In 1852, with a cash capital of $500, Benjamin's son, Jacob Shinn established one of the first general stores—just down the road from the log home of Thomas Russell—in an 18 ft by 24 ft building. Shinn replaced the wood structure store with a masonry structure, a building completed in 1876 and which, still standing today, is known as the Shinn Building. It was built at the junction of an east–west road from Lewisburg to Clarksville and a north–south road between Dover and the military road crossing at Norristown on the Arkansas River. The intersection is now Main Street and Denver (formerly River) Street respectively. Before the construction of the masonry building, the existing store was moved to the back of Shinn's property and, during construction, continued in operation." ~ Wikipedia