This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1MB.2ACI/2915.2 Message Board Post: carthage_town_square.jpg That's the Jasper County Court House Carthage, Missouri It was in 1894-95, that the present Jasper County courthouse was constructed in the center of the Carthage square. Recent Joplin Globe article. http://www.joplinglobe.com/story.php?story_id=216645&c=87 http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20169 http://www.legendsofamerica.com/MO-Carthage.html http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/MO/Jasper/state.html Orlena