Research Fees
Maps
Come visit Scott County, Missouri, a Frontier County established in 1821.
Within our County you can enjoy the General Watkins Conservation Area, City of Chaffee, Commerce Historical Museums and Sikeston-Miner with their Sikeston Depot Cultural Museum.
The Scott County Historical & Genealogy Society has a research room in the Benton, Missouri Library located on U.S. Highway 61 one block north of the Scott County, Missouri Court House.
We invite you to visit and use this resource center during the Library's hours of 1 pm - 6 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 8:00 am - Noon on Saturday. The Library is closed on Thursdays.
Our Host is Big River Telephone Company
Scott County Historic Photo
Can you identify the location and the approximate year of the above photo?
Click Here for the details of this Historic Photo !
... At our next meeting ........
We will meet July 15, 2008 at Library
Meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. with our speaker scheduled to be Dr. Joel Rhodes who will speak on Louis Houck. Dr. Rhodes is an Assistant Professor of History at Southeast Missouri State University and the Associate Director of the Center for Regional and Cultural History. Rhodes will speak on his new book, “A Missouri Railroad Pioneer: The Life of Louis Houck,”
Everyone is welcome to attend, and please, bring a friend.
... Click HERE for more information on our monthly meetings..
About Our PHOTO Collections
Books & Publications available for sale
Research Materials Available (Include Ancestor Charts, Books, Genealogies, Family Histories and Maps)
SPECIAL PUBLICATION: We are presently writing a book about the "One-Room School Houses of Scott County". Anyone with information on any of the 58 schools please contact Deborah Gunter at dgunter_1@charter.net or call her at 573-318-4633. UPDATE: The Publication Committee will begin the task of putting together last minute touches of this book starting July 10 at 1:00 pm at the Benton Riverside Regional Library. We are requesting that everyone on the Committee please be present.
Research Availability and Fees
Our archives and special collections resources are available by appointment only, not on a drop-in basis.
Research conducted by members of our volunteer staff is available.
We require a fee of $10.00 up front before any search activity is initiated. If we are successful in locating an obituary, death notice, photo, printed article, etc., the charge is another $5.00 per object located.
There also may be a small charge for copying, duplicating, and document scanning of materials requested and located.
All costs must be paid in advance, funds sent to
Scott
County Historical & Genealogy Society
P. O. Box 151
Benton, MO 63736
You may make inquiry by emailing us at scottcomohistory@gmail.com
