Sydney soon found out the old building needed more work than he wanted to put into it, so in 1926, he constructed a new building next to the existing old store, and by 1928, he had expanded it into a row of buildings, with the store on the left, a structure in the middle that served at various times, as a feed store, cafe, and barbershop, and at the far right, was a service station and garage. As Route 66 was being constructed through the area, Casey reopened the old feed and seed store to supply items to the workers building the new highway and motorists driving up and down the newly poured concrete road. He put down a $50 deposit (later, he made eight payments of $50 for a total of $500) for the old town of Spencer, which contained a vacant feed and seed store built in 1910 and two acres of land. Photo courtesy of Ed Klein.Ībout a dozen years later, a man named Sydney Casey learned the plans for a new highway in 1925. Once traffic stopped, businesses closed, people moved on, and Spencer became a ghost town The post office closed in 1907, and the road to Spencer became impassable by 1912. But the town would be short-lived for the agricultural community. Before long, others moved into the settlement, and the town gained a grocery store and blacksmith shop. Spencer from Illinois opened a store at the site where a post office was established in 1868 called Spencer.īy the 1880s, the village had another general store, a schoolhouse, and a Methodist and Christian Church.
The place was initially referred to as Johnson’s Mill until Mr. The site became popular for travelers who stopped along Johnson Creek near the flour mill.
This tiny little settlement started in the 1860s on the old Carthage-Springfield Road after Oliver Johnson built a mill along the creek that was soon named after him. Just beyond the bridge is the ‘town’ of Spencer, Missouri.
After a right turn, you first cross a 1923 one-lane steel truss bridge over Johnson Creek. West of Paris Springs Junction, old Route 66 takes a jog off across State Road 96 onto County Road N, south to Spencer, Missouri. 1923 triple pony-truss bridge over Johnson Creek.
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