Appleton City Pavilion – 1914

The City Park Pavilion was built in 1914.  The park was a popular meeting place used for ban concerts, Memorial Day services, political speeches and Union church services on Sunday Evenings. The Sulpho-Lithia well was located in the park and its water was drunk for medicinal purposes. The limestone rocks were quarried on the Ola Williams Kavanaugh family farm north of AppletonCity.

Source; QuasquicentennialAppletonCity Sketch Book, 1870-1995.

AppletonCityCemetery Gates

The entrance gate was built in 1923.  H.C. Schlichtman, in business as a marble and tombstone cutter, was given the contract to construct the gates by Mayor George Ellis, Sr.  The pillars were built of Carthage “Marble”.

 Source:  It All Started With A Tornado by Wilbur Zink,Appleton City, Mo