Missouri History Today November 17, 2021: Poplar Bluff Shaken: The New Madrid Seismic Event

Missouri History Today November 17, 2021: Poplar Bluff Shaken: The New Madrid Seismic Event


The WashMoBros gear up and ride Big BAM 2021

It was certainly a desire to ride through the state’s green and rolling-hill countryside in summertime that attracted us. Maybe there was a pain component, too, that was curiously, if a little perversely, compelling—confronting the dreaded beast that is humidity in Missouri’s hottest months. 


Explore and discover the Ozark Trail

The Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce invites you to explore and discover the Ozark Trail. Here is one native Ozarkian's experience.


Tasty Eats, Done Dirt Cheap

8 Great Places for Inexpensive Eats in Missouri


February 27, 1849

Butler County was formed on this date.


Bootheel Cotton Field

Bootheel Confidential: A Guide to Missouri’s Southland

The Bootheel is influenced more by Memphis than by St. Louis, and the area definitely is a member in good standing of the Old South. Stuck like a hatchet in the forehead of Arkansas, the Bootheel and its people, for the most part, feel alienated from the rest of Missouri.


May 9, 1927

A tornado in Poplar Bluff killed 104 and injured 350 more.