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    May 2008
    Citywide Garage Sale
    Date: Saturday, May 3
    Time: as early as 6:00AM
    Location: Pick up a Friday edition of the Carthage Press for a full listing of sale locations
    Special Note: If you want your home listed in the Citywide Garage Sale you must get a permit from the city and register with the Chamber of Commerce at membership@carthagechamber.com

    Media Luncheon
    Date: Wednesday, May 7th
    Time: 11:30 AM
    Location: Phelps House ( 1146 Grand Ave, Carthage)
    Description: Local media contacts are invited to a special luncheon in their honor!
    Attendees will be asked to share ideas of how the Chamber and its members can better
    utilize the media to promote and inform others of products, services, and events.
    By invitation only.

    Office Closed in Observance of Memorial Day
    Date: Monday, May 26th

    June 2008

    July 2008
    Office Closed in observance of Independence Day!
    Date: Friday, July 4th

    Summer Sidewalk Sale-Bration!
    Date: Saturday, July 19th
    Time: Stores will open as early as 7:00 AM
    Location: city-wide
    Description: There will be lots of great deals found around town! Visit participating
    businesses to stock-up on great savings!

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    September 2008
    Annual Chamber Four Person Golf Scramble
    Date: Friday, September 19th
    Time: 8:00 AM
    Location: Carthage Municipal Golf Course
    Description: What better way to start your day than on a tee box! Enjoy a morning
    filled with good food, great friends and lots of prizes.


    October 2008
    42nd Annual Maple Leaf Festival        
    Dates: Saturday, October 11 - Saturday, October 18   
    Description: This week-long celebration features a variety of events ranging from the Annual Queen Pageant to the Three Minutes of Fame Lip-Sync Competition. The festival  finale on Saturday the 18th begins with the Largest Parade in Southwest Missouri at 9:00AM followed by a variety of special events centered around more than 80 craft booths and food vendors set-up on the historic Carthage square. Contact the Chamber at info@carthagechamber.com for festival details or to request event brochures and applications.

    Maple Leaf Parade
    Date: Saturday, October 18
    Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM
    Location: Starting on the Historic Carthage Square
    Cost: $50 for each commercial or political entry, all others FREE
    Applications deadline for the parade registrations is September 26,2008
    Contact info@carthagechamber.com for Maple Leaf Parade applications.

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    cover-new-feathered2007-12-13-1197571737.gif Welcome to Carthage Missouri
    The Maple Leaf City

    Located in the southwest corner of the state of Missouri where fertile grassland prairies to the north meet timbered Ozark uplands to the south, Carthage has experienced over 160  years of history.  So, if you like history and want to discover the past, come explore Carthage!

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    Carthage_Courthouse2007-12-13-1197574866.jpgEarly History:

    An abundance of timber, prairies and river bottom land made Carthage and its surrounding area attractive for settlement.  however it was the wealth that lay under the surface -- limestone, zinc, and lead -- that was to produce the industrial boom and capital for the physical and cultural development of jasper County and its towns.

    As early as the late 1600s, different bands of the Osage made southwest Missouri their home.  other Native Americans, the Lenape or Delawares, who lived briefly in the James River area to the east in the 1810s - 20s, also visited this region to hunt and fish.  Shawnees, Quapaws, and Cherokees, removed to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) by the U.S. government in the 1830s, often returned to this area to trade, hunt, or settle after intermarriage.

    By treaty in 1825, the Osage were removed to Kansas Territory, but in 1837 many returned to Missouri to search for food and game due to poor conditions in Kansas.  Missouri Governor, Lilburn Boggs, called out the state militia to expel the Osage to Kansas.  This event, known as the Osage War, is identified with a marker at the southwest corner of the Jasper County Courthouse Square (#29), Main & 3rd ...

    CLICK HERE to download the complete history brochure.

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