Editing Tarkio, Missouri (section)

==History==
Tarkio was founded by Charles E. Perkins in 1880,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n14 203]}}</ref> and grew rapidly. By 1900, the [[United States Census|U.S. Census]] shows 2,845 persons living in Tarkio.<ref name="GR2" /> According to the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census, the number of residents held fairly steady for the next 30 years.<ref name="GR2" />

One of the community's most famous landmarks was the [[Mule Barn Theatre|Tarkio Mule Barn]], an octagonal brick structure built in the early 1890s. It was converted to the Tarkio Mule Barn Theatre which was used by Tarkio College. It was on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], but the building was destroyed in a 1989 fire.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = O'Donnell
  | first = Billyo (illustrator)
  |author2=Karen Glines
   | title = Painting Missouri: The Counties En Plein Air
  | publisher = University of Missouri Press
  | year = 2008
  | location = Columbia, MO
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/paintingmissouri00odon/page/6 6]
  | url = https://archive.org/details/paintingmissouri00odon
  | url-access = registration
  | isbn = 978-0-8262-1756-1}}</ref>

[[Rankin Hall]] and the [[Walnut Inn]] are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>