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Southern Missouri was home to a tribe of Kickapoo, and after the territory was formed became home by treaty to resettled Delaware tribes as well. After Missouri became a state in 1821, the area covering most of the southern part was named Greene county in honor of Revolutionary hero Nathaniel Greene. The city of Springfield was most likely named for Springfield, Tennessee, but may have been named after the Massachusetts town by the same name.

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  • Springfield, Missouri (1983: Doomsday)
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  • Southern Missouri was home to a tribe of Kickapoo, and after the territory was formed became home by treaty to resettled Delaware tribes as well. After Missouri became a state in 1821, the area covering most of the southern part was named Greene county in honor of Revolutionary hero Nathaniel Greene. The city of Springfield was most likely named for Springfield, Tennessee, but may have been named after the Massachusetts town by the same name.
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  • Southern Missouri was home to a tribe of Kickapoo, and after the territory was formed became home by treaty to resettled Delaware tribes as well. After Missouri became a state in 1821, the area covering most of the southern part was named Greene county in honor of Revolutionary hero Nathaniel Greene. The city of Springfield was most likely named for Springfield, Tennessee, but may have been named after the Massachusetts town by the same name. Strategically on the road west, first railroads and then highways passed through Springfield on the way from Chicago to the west coast. Violence marked two eras within the period between the Civil War and World War I. The "Wild West" began there in 1865 with the shootout between "Wild" Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt. Hickok put a bullet through Tutt's heart from 75 yards away using a handgun. The feat made him famous. In 1906, a dark period of segregation and racial strife came to a head when a large lynch mob broke into the jail and publicly hung, and then burned, three black men accused of rape and murder. Evidence seems to indicate that all three were innocent.This caused an exodus of blacks from the town that in 1980 had only about 3% African American.
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