Shantyboat communities on the upper Mississippi River Valley?

Question

Does anyone have links or resources beyond books they can direct me to that directly deal with shantyboat communities along the banks of the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri? I'm interested in exploring, gathering, and archiving oral history around people living on or adjacent to the river.

Answer 1

I looked under Mark Twain and Missouri, finding some material to research online. Then, I used a 'shanty town' search for Missouri, finding: https://www.semissourian.com/story/2152545.html

Hooversville in St. Louis aka Shanty Town - Blog - City-Data Forum

http://www.city-data.com/blogs/blog1168-hooversville-st-louis-aka-shanty-town.html

Oct 4, 2008 ... Does anyone remember Hooversville in St. Louis, also known as Shanty Town down on the St. Louis Bluffs, overlooking the Mississippi River

19 Best HOOVERVILLE/SHANTY TOWN ST. LOUIS images ...

https://www.pinterest.com/bomar3803/hoovervilleshanty-town-st-louis/

Explore marian steinkamp's board "HOOVERVILLE/SHANTY TOWN ST. ... Mailboxes for squatters along the river, St. Louis, Missouri St Loius, Missouri ...... These 40 Realistically Colorized Photos From the 1800 and 1900′s Make the Past .

The Irish Way: Immigration and Innovation in Kansas City ...

http://www.squeezeboxcity.com/irishimmigration/

Mar 17, 2017 ... Irish influence in Kansas City, timeline, Gully Town, bluff dwelling, ... From the late 1800s through the early 1900s, Kansas City housed ... in Missouri, an immigrant from County Cavan, Ireland and the town's newly appointed resident priest. ... Many people like this resided in shanty-towns across the bluffs

History – A Secret History of American River People

https://peoplesriverhistory.us/project/history/

A shantyboat is a small crude houseboat (also called a flatboat, broadhorn, barge , ... lived in shantyboats along the canals and rivers of industrial American towns. ... houseboats to float the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Missouri and other rivers.

Neely's Landing—The Rise and Fall of a Mississippi River Town ...

http://www.semopress.com/neelys-landing-the-rise-and-fall-of-a-mississippi-river-town/

Neely's Landing—The Rise and Fall of a Mississippi River Town ... Whether it was beaver pelts to St. Louis in the early 1800s or grain to the Gulf Coast in ..... Paul said the Neely's quarry area in the 1930s had about 15 to 20 of the shacks,

The History Behind The Paseo, One Of Kansas City's First ... - Kcur

https://www.kcur.org/post/history-behind-paseo-one-kansas-citys-first-boulevards

May 23, 2017 ... The steep bluffs and ravines that come with being a river town made it ... a few accounts of what it was like coming to Kansas City in the mid 1800s. ... Credit Missouri Valley Special Collections / Kansas City Public Library ... Before The Paseo was built, the land around that area was basically a shanty town.

These are readily available sources of information when accessed on the Internet. Be sure to use quotes and give credence to the source materials that might be copyrighted.