Commemorative Stamp Day, September 11, 1968
A commemorative stamp honoring Walt Disney – Marceline’s favorite son – was issued at the Marceline, Missouri Post Office on September 11, 1968 by the U. S. Post Office Department.
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Google Street View just updated!
VERY exciting news! The Google Street View car drove through Marceline on June 28, 2023 and the images are now LIVE! Check it out – https://goo.gl/maps/CSxQ9RayeipqZNEw8 The last time they drove through was in July 2014, and a lot has changed. Sadly though, the carnival was being setup, so Ripley …
Marceline, 1938 Jubilee – Chris Ankeney
1938 Marceline Jubilee photos from Chris Ankeney
The Development of Northeast Marceline
by Marilyn Foley The small town of Marceline, Missouri, was gradually growing in population and expanding in area. By the turn of the century she was a prosperous mining center. The Santa Fe Railroad had been going through since 1887. J. C. Taylor owned approximately fifty acres of ground in …
Memories of Marceline
The early days of the “Magic City” (as our town was called) were marked by excessive unlawfulness. Fights, murders and thievery being in the headlines as did incendiary fires which did a lot to make our early history black. If a Saturday night passed without two or three fist fights …
Marceline Jubilee
EVENTS THAT WILL BE CONTINUOUS DURING THE JUBILEE June 29 – July 4. Jubilee House – at corner of Howell and Kansas Avenue. Decorated with antiques in the manner of a house of 1888. Nike Missile – at the corner of Howell and Kansas Avenue. Modern technology at its most …
“The Marceline I Knew”
by Walt Disney “I was extremely glad to receive your letter asking me to write some impressions of Marceline as I remember it from childhood days. To tell the truth, more things at importance happened to me in Marceline than have happened since – or are likely to in the …
Marceline Junior Chamber of Commerce
The Marceline Junior Chamber of Commerce is a comparatively newcomer on the scene when compared with some of the older organizations in town, however, since the club was founded in 1954, a great many things have been accomplished for the community. The Marceline Jay-Cees are an extension from the International …
Marceline Coordinated Welfare Council
It was through the letter from the Social Planning Committee of the Marceline Community Chest, sent to all Federated Clubs and organizations in April 1950, that the group now known as Marceline Co-ordinated Welfare Council was started. On May 1, 1950 under the sponsorship of the Theodore Roosevelt Post #264 …
From the Marceline Mirror Jan. 1895
In 1890 we were counted for the work Uncle Sam proposed to put on the press, entitled, “A Census of the United States,” and at that time our population was 1,922 souls. Recently a scheme to quietly take the census was sprung by Dr. J. H. Perrin and other progressive …