Missouri is known as the “Show Me” state.
With our sweltering summers and mild winters, many people flock to our midwestern state of beauty and uniqueness.
Uniquely Missouri is known to set record from sports to weather.
The second driest year on record for Missouri was in 1901.
Then 53 years later, in 1954, Warsaw and Union, MO set records with 118-degree days!
Ironically enough, Warsaw is also on record for the coldest day in Missouri with a frigid temperature of negative 40 degrees in 1911.
It is extremely uncommon for the same municipality to have both our state’s record for the highest and lowest temperatures.
The population of Warsaw, Missouri, the county seat of Benton County, has around 2,100 permanent residents. However, it nearly doubles throughout the Truman Lake season... Thanks to the lake aficionados, campers, and anglers who set up temporary residences nearby or simply visit for the variety of activities the area offers.
In fact, Warsaw's history intertwines with my family's history.
From what I know the Delaware, Shawnee, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and other Indian tribes lived in the vicinity when white explorers first arrived in it in 1719.
Yet, the Osage Indians, from whom the river would subsequently acquire its name, were by far the majority of the territory.
In around 1820, English, Irish, and German-speaking farmers from Kentucky and Tennessee began to settle in what eventually came to be the town of Warsaw, MO.
The hamlet quickly developed into a major hub for transportation and freighting.
In my family's case my great-great-great grandparents moved to Warsaw sometime after 1870 from Marion, Iowa bringing my great-great grandmother and her baby son.
My great-great grandmother would go on in later years to run Benton County's Poor Farm back in the Great Depression 1930's. (Left side women in second row with her second husband behind her)
That baby, my great Grandfather & his bride, would marry and raise 10 children... Maybe because both of them were only children (they are the second couple on the left... second & back row). Their second eldest son was my grandfather. (Guy on the right back row with cowboy hat)
Their farm would continue to raise their children and often grandchildren.
Warsaw is rich in history and my family was part of that famous history... Hot or Cold... they witnessed it!
Nana
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