The main reason Reno should be of interest to Stone County researchers is that it sat right in that little "nook" of land that forms the corner of Christian, Taney, and Stone Counties. We've all learned that our people didn't particularly worry about county lines when it came to mail and that sort of thing. from "Christian Co. MO--1859-1959" by Mellie Stewart "Mr. and Mrs. Tom Phillips had a store at Reno, MO, and had the land marked for a city and a hotel, which wasn't used. They sold whiskey. She sold the store and land to Frank Kentling." (VKS note--Frank Kentling was the founder of Highlandville, MO, a few miles up the road from Spokane. I don't know for a fact that he owned or didn't own the store in Reno...this is the only place I've read that) "He had the store in 1898, until he sold to Nelson Valentine Stewart, the last of 1900 or 1901. Frank Kentling had another store, down the road from Reno, in 1915, where Orville Holt lives in Section 31." "Down the road" from Reno, if you use the common southern for down, would be in either Stone or Taney Counties. I never knew of Kentling owning a store anywhere but Highlandville, but he may have. Basically, the gist is that the store closed in the early 1930s, and that was the end of the town. The store was converted to a home and burned in 1986. A chart in the back of the book states that Reno was a town from 1881 to 1918, and that it was also called Tauria. The only listing I find right now for Eau de Vie is that it was a town from 1880-1907. I just had a "uh, duh" moment. You can go to http://www.livgenmi.com/mo1895mp.htm and see a map of where Reno is/was. The file is over 1700K, so it can take more than 5 minutes to download. Spokane isn't quite so far east. Eau de Vie, which is not shown here, was kinda in between Bluff and Swan in Taney county, only north, in Christian Co. There is also an article from the White River Valley Historical Quarterly about towns in Christian county http://198.209.8.166/wrvq/v4/n1/f70e.htm It talks about the mineral springs, too. Vonda ListMom for MOTaney and MO-AR-WRV http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~moarwrv/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregvonda/