Editing Cuba, Missouri (section)

==History==
Cuba was [[plat]]ted  in 1857 when it was certain the railroad would be extended to that point.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yKA8AAAAIBAJ&pg=1591%2C6727802 | title=City almost named after shopkeeper's wife | work=Cuba Free Press | date=May 17, 2007 | access-date=2 May 2015 | author=Reed, Jane | pages=2A}}</ref> It was named after the island of [[Cuba]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbyjamQWtScC&pg=PA28 | title=Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Ramsay, Robert L. | year=1952 | pages=28| isbn=9780826205865 }}</ref>

President [[Harry S. Truman]] visited Cuba during a tour of [[U.S. Route 66]]. He surveyed the property that would eventually become Indian Hills Lake. Indian Hills Lake was originally known as "Indian Head Lake" because the skull of a [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] was found during excavation.

[[Bette Davis]] and [[Amelia Earhart]] also visited the town. Their visits are commemorated in the Viva Cuba Mural Project.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cubamomurals.com/murals.html|title=Cuba Missouri Mural Gallery|work=cubamurals.com|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-date=June 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618190653/http://www.cubamomurals.com/murals.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Cuba was designated as the Route 66 Mural City by the Missouri legislature in recognition of Viva Cuba's Outdoor Mural Project.<ref name="vivacuba">{{cite web|url=http://www.cubamomurals.com/aboutus.html|title=About Viva Cuba - Cuba Missouri's Beautification Group|work=cubamurals.com|access-date=2012-06-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618190646/http://www.cubamomurals.com/aboutus.html|archive-date=2012-06-18|url-status=dead}}</ref> The beautification group consulted with [[Michelle Loughery]], a Canadian muralist who helped create the vision and  two of the murals. The group commissioned twelve outdoor murals along the Route 66 corridor.<ref name="vivacuba" /> [[Interstate 44]] now runs through Cuba.

Cuba was also the site of the first [[Adopt a Highway]] program in Missouri.<ref name="vivacuba" />

The [[Cuba City Jail]], [[Cuba High School Annex]], [[Cuba Lodge No. 312 A.F. and A.M.]], [[George B. Hamilton House]], [[Hotel Cuba]], [[John Manson Munro House]], [[Uptown Cuba Historic District]], and [[Wagon Wheel Motel, Cafe and Station]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/listings/20130322.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2013-03-22|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 3/11/13 through 3/15/13 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps1">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/13000227.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2013-02-27|work=NRHP Featured Property|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nps2">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20141107.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2014-11-07|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 10/27/14 through 10/31/14|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref>