Editing Cassville, Missouri (section)

==History==
The land which would be called Cassville was [[plat]]ted in 1845.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=206}}</ref> A post office was set up the same year.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=mo&county=Barry|title=Notification Service {{!}} Post Offices|date=2011-07-03|access-date=2020-01-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110703061710/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=mo&county=Barry|archive-date=2011-07-03}}</ref> The community was named after [[Lewis Cass]], a former United States Senator and Secretary of War.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_barry.html |title=Barry County Place Names, 1928-1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |access-date=30 August 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071806/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_barry.html |archive-date=24 June 2016 }}</ref> Cassville was incorporated on March 3, 1847.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barrycomuseum.org/pages/Cassville.html|title=Cassville|website=www.barrycomuseum.org|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref>

During the forced removal of the Cherokee people along the Trail of Tears, a group traveling the northern route made a stop in Cassville, Missouri. According to the journal of Reverend Daniel S. Butrick, who accompanied the Cherokee on their journey. 
<ref>Butrick, Daniel S. ''Cherokee Removal: The Journal of Rev. Daniel S. Butrick, May 19, 1838 – April 1, 1839''. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998, p. 14. [https://search.worldcat.org/title/41645086 WorldCat].</ref>  

This event is one of many documented instances of violence against Cherokee people during their forced relocation under the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Trail of Tears resulted in the deaths of thousands of Cherokee due to exposure, disease, and mistreatment by both U.S. government agents and civilians.<ref>Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. ''The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears''. Viking, 2007.</ref>


Cassville served as the Confederate capital of Missouri for one week from October 31 to November 7, 1861. This ended abruptly when the duly elected governor of the State, Claiborne F. Jackson, and his political and military allies were pushed further south by the invading Union army. [[Battle of Pea Ridge|The Battle of Pea Ridge]] later secured Missouri for the Union.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thelibrary.org/lochist/periodicals/wrv/V33/N3/sp94f.html|title=One week in Cassville during the Civil War|website=thelibrary.org|access-date=2020-01-05}}</ref>
[[File:Mural in Cassville, MO.jpg|right|thumb|200px|{{center|WPA mural, ''Flora and Fauna of the Region'' by Edward Winter, in Cassville post office}}]]

The city was connected by rail via the [[Cassville & Exeter Railroad]] from July 4, 1896 to September 11, 1956.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mobarry/Exeter/train.htm|title=The Shortest Railroad in America, Exeter, MO}}</ref>

The [[Cassville Ranger Station Historic District]], [[Natural Bridge Archaeological Site]], and six sites in [[Roaring River State Park]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>