Editing Duenweg, Missouri (section)

==History==
While the [[Osage tribe]] inhabited the general region previously, European-American settlement started in the year 1855, when two brothers, Elijah C. and James C. Webb, from Overton County, Tennessee, moved to the area.<ref name=City>{{cite web|url= https://duenwegmo.com/community/history/ |title=The History of Duenweg, MO|publisher=City of Duenweg|accessdate=October 30, 2021}}</ref>  Mining in the vicinity later caught the attention of Otto Duenweg and his father, Louis, of Terre Haute, Indiana, who in 1895 purchased significant mining interests at the site.<ref name=City/>  The mining camp became known from that time on as Duenweg in their honor.<ref name=City/>  A post office called Duenweg has been in operation since 1895.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jasper |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=18 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018234000/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Jasper |archivedate=18 October 2016 }}</ref>

Rail lines came in to serve the workers and mines.  The Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company, forerunner of the [[Southwest Missouri Railroad Company]], which had already linked Joplin, [[Webb City, Missouri|Webb City]], [[Carterville, Missouri|Carterville]] and [[Prosperity, Missouri|Prosperity]] by 1894, was extended south from Prosperity into Duenweg in 1903.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://files.shsmo.org/manuscripts/rolla/R0052.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924065805/https://files.shsmo.org/manuscripts/rolla/R0052.pdf |archive-date=2021-09-24 |url-status=live |title = R52 Southwest Missouri Railroad Company. Records, 1892-1941. 5 volumes, 1 folder|publisher=State Historical Society of Missouri|accessdate=October 29, 2021}}</ref><ref name=Electric>{{cite web|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ckQ_AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Southwest+Missouri+Railroad+Company%22&pg=PA543 |title=The Southwest Missouri Railroad Company|year=1906|publisher=Electric Railway Review, September 1906, pp. 543-548|accessdate=October 28, 2021}}</ref> The line was indirectly involved in a bank robbery in 1915 when, on February 17, robbers hit the Duenweg Bank, intending to escape on the streetcar to Joplin.<ref name=City/>  When they missed the car by one minute, they attempted and failed to escape on foot.<ref name=City/>

The settlement was not officially incorporated until 1954, becoming the City of Duenweg.<ref name=City/>  In 2002 the city expanded by annexation to include additional lands to the north and south.<ref name=City/>