Editing Stone County, Missouri (section)

==History==
The county was officially organized on February 10, 1851, and is named after William Stone, an [[English people|English]] pioneer and an early settler in [[Maryland]] who also served as Taney County Judge.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Stone County|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mostone/misc/history.html|publisher=The History of Stone County|access-date=February 24, 2014}}</ref>

In 1904, the White River Railway was extended through the rugged terrain of Stone and [[Taney County, Missouri|Taney]] counties. By then, both counties had had a [[sundown town]] policy for years, forbidding African Americans from living there.<ref>{{cite news|title=Engineering Conquest of the Ozarks: Construction of White River Railroad Through Mountainous Districts of Stone and Taney Counties|work= The St. Louis Republic|location=St. Louis, Missouri|date=February 21, 1904|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2766215/|via=Newspapers.com|quote=Then came the contractors with their hundreds of horses, their powerful machines for moving and piling stone and earth, their great camp of men, Irishmen for foremen, Austrians, Italians and negroes, the last most woefully unwelcome in these two counties, where no negroes have been allowed to live for many years.}}</ref>