EXETER, MO. S / USA - Population Signs on Waymarking.com

The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company had the shortest railroad track on record which ran from Exeter to Cassville.

The laying of tracks began in Exeter on June 11, 1896 and they were laid into Cassville on June 20th. On July 4th 1896 during one of the biggest celebrations ever known, the first train steamed into Cassville. The name of this little short line which connected Cassville to to the Frisco line in Exeter was "The Cassville and Western Railroad." For many years this railroad was the only way into Cassville as most of the roads would be impassable during bad weather. Both passengers and shippers depended on it for transpiration from the Frisco line in Exeter.

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"This tracks stretched from Cassville 4.8 miles to the Exeter switch and went uphill from Cassville to Exeter. The engines would use their steam power to go uphill and without a way to turn around in Exeter, would make the return trip by coasting into Cassville backwards, letting gravity do the work. On Oct. 4, 1917 when a tragedy occurred (See Home Wrecked by Cars, Miss Ruth Bloomer Killed) it seemed to be the forerunner of events which eventually sent this little railroad into bankruptcy."

There are also plans in the works to make this town powered by windmills only.
There is also another natural anomaly just a little further west the only active sink hole to date.

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Address: South Front Street

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