HMP celebrated Historic Preservation Month this May with a History Treasure Hunt! The hunt was inspired by Joshua Shackles book“The Explorer’s Club”
HMP Mission: To promote, educate and preserve the integrity of historic properties throughout the Murphysburg District and Joplin.
HMP Vision: To help the people who live and visit our community understand how history shapes, inspires, and informs the present. To help the District remain a historic community that is beautiful, inviting, inclusive and safe for our neighbors to live and visitors to explore.
Winners had to check in at 11 locations to win! Our winners showed up approximately within 30 minutes of one another, taking about 3 to 3 1/2 hours to finish. Good work!!!
Want to learn about Joplin’s existing treasures and some that were lost. Take the tour on your own below.
Stay tuned for more fun events Murphysburg has coming up.
2nd Annual Murphysburg Treasure Hunt. Take the challenge!
- Where city fathers sleep in rows A miner’s stone keeps quiet score. He lost to history’s winning woman, Yet built the house that came before. ANSWER
2. Before the park, before the fame, The Creekside glasses filled with cheer. A German fortune found its roots, Where mining money flowed like beer. ANSWER
3. Two men dug down and struck a spark, That split the valley into two. Before the mansions, courts, and streets, The buried gray began to view. ANSWER
4. A merchants home on Sergeant stands, With faith and fabric interlaced. Seek the corner fire where art looks back, And temple dreams were first embraced. ANSWER
5. The mothers road once took a bend, Where travelers stopped for food and flame. Before the clippers claimed the pumps
A lucky leaf sold gas by name. ANSWER
6. A lawyers name, a bankers rise,
A mansion born of boomtown gain, From family halls to sacred work, Its walls have changed, but still remain. ANSWER
7. Where Joplin fought to hold the law, A stone recalls the county’s pride. A crowd once marched, the towers rose, Then smoke and fire took all inside. ANSWER
8. Not the mansion, but near its shade, A gardener kept the grounds in line. He crossed from servant into kin, And managed wealth of lead and vine. ANSWER
9. Before the rival town was one,
An eastern founder marked his claim. Across the creek from Murphy’s dream, His spring-fed plan preserved the name. ANSWER
10. Find the city’s maker of stone and line, Who shaped the skyline, school and prayer. His final room still holds its form, Among the gardens high in air. ANSWER
Our event was sponsored by: Thank you for your dedication to HMP’s preservation efforts.
The Jobe Stevens Apartments