Editing Maryville, Missouri (section)

=== Harry Truman connections ===
[[Harry S. Truman]] (along with [[Bess Truman|Bess]] and [[Margaret Truman]]) made the last of several visits to Maryville on August 3, 1962, when he dedicated the current post office.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://maryvillemo.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/truman-post-office/|title=Harry Truman Dedicates Maryville Post Office August 3, 1962|last=roger|date=January 4, 2012|website=Maryvillemo.wordpress.com|access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref> Truman had extensive ties to Maryville.  During [[World War I]] Truman was a member of the [[129th Field Artillery Regiment]] in the [[Missouri National Guard]], which is headquartered in Maryville. Truman commanded Battery D in the war of the 129th. The 129th official motto is "Truman's Own" because of the affiliation. During the [[Meuse-Argonne Offensive]] during World War I in 1918, Truman prophetically told his troops, ""Right now, I'm where I want to be – in command of this battery. I'd rather be here than president of the United States."<ref>{{cite web |last=Kelly |first=Bethanne |url=http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/1,12044,MLtruman,00.html |title=Content |website=Military.com |access-date=July 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408192001/http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent/1,12044,MLtruman,00.html |archive-date=April 8, 2016 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Among the original 129th soldiers was Edward V. Condon (1893–1974) who later operated the Condon Corner Drug Store across the street on the Square after the war.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/condon.htm|title=Truman Library – Edward V. Condon Papers|website=Trumanlibrary.org|access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref> Truman dedicated the 129th's armory on the northwest side of [[Bearcat Stadium]] on the college campus on February 20, 1955.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/66295111/|title=The Maryville Daily Forum from Maryville, Missouri &middot; Page 1|website=Newspapers.com|date=February 21, 1955 |access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nodawaybroadcasting.com/newsview.php?storyid=1265 |title=Maryville MO's Radio Station That ROCKS :: 97.1 The 'Vill KVVL |website=Nodawaybroadcasting.com |date=June 10, 2011 |access-date=July 7, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331215551/http://www.nodawaybroadcasting.com/newsview.php?storyid=1265 |archive-date=March 31, 2016 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

The 1955 armory was repurposed as the Jon T. Rickman Electronic Campus Support Center in 2003, when a new armory was built further west of the campus near the Maryville Country Club, which is the site of the original Faustiana Farm complex.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nwmissouri.smartcatalogiq.com/en/2014-2016/Undergraduate-Catalog/Appendix/Facilities|title=Northwest Missouri State University – Facilities|website=Nwmissouri.smartcatalogiq.com|access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref> Many of Maryville's most active citizens have ties to the 129th, including Leigh Wilson (1881–1978), who rose to rank of Brigadier General. Wilson, who operated the Wilson Motel in Maryville, as well as the Hitching Post restaurant, was one of the biggest proponents for broadening Maryville's economic base away from the college.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/84151723/|title=The Maryville Daily Forum from Maryville, Missouri &middot; Page 20|website=Newspapers.com|date=July 26, 1976 |access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref>

Truman's sister Mary Jane Truman, who was active in the [[Order of Eastern Star]], visited Maryville and Nodaway County several times for Eastern Star events before, during and after the Truman presidency.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5394756/mary_jane_truman_maryville_masonic/|title=Mary Jane Truman Maryville Masonic Lodge May 28, 1948 - on Newspapers.com|newspaper=The Maryville Daily Forum|date=May 28, 1948|page=1|access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref>

In 1969, Maryville received an [[All-America City Award]].{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}

In 1987, the Palms Bar in town began sponsoring the "World's Shortest [[Saint Patrick's Day|Saint Patrick's Day Parade]]." The parades, which are less than a block long, have been getting shorter each year as other towns compete for the title. One of the mainstays of events has been a garbage truck driving down the street at the beginning, pouring out buckets of green water as a Maryville homage to the dyeing of the [[Chicago River]] green.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/NEWS/9703/17/events.parade/|title=CNN – EVENTS: World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade – March 17, 1997|website=Cnn.com|access-date=July 5, 2016}}</ref> In 2015, the parade moved from being a block off the square to actually being on the square after it became sponsored by Burny's Sports Bar.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maryvilledailyforum.com/news/article_017bbd52-baff-11e4-a9c5-ffc1f6171ec2.html|title=New location, sponsor proposed for St. Pat's parade|first=TONY BROWN Staff|last=writer|website=Maryvilledailyforum.com|date=February 23, 2015 |access-date=July 5, 2016}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 1994, [[Mozingo Lake]] opened east of Maryville. Its [[Mozingo Lake Golf Course]] has courses designed by [[Donald Sechrest]] and [[Tom Watson (golfer)|Tom Watson]] (which opened in 2016).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maryvilledailyforum.com/news/article_b94fe4c4-cbf9-11e5-915d-c3c6e4e507d5.html|title=Tom Watson to attend youth course opening|author=TONY BROWN |website=Maryvilledailyforum.com|date=February 5, 2016 |access-date=July 5, 2016}}{{dead link|date=December 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In 1996, the [[Maryville Treatment Center]], a minimum security prison, opened in a renovated [[Franciscan Sisters of Mary]] [[Motherhouse]] which had been built in 1947 and has a landmark yellow steeple on the bluffs above the [[One Hundred and Two River]] on the east side of Maryville.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}