Old Wire Road

It followed an old Native American route, the Great Osage Trail across the Ozarks and became a road along a telegraph line from St. Louis, Missouri, to Fort Smith, Arkansas.

[4] At Springfield, it turned southwest and passed through what is now Wilson's Creek National Battlefield.

From the Battlefield it meandered southwest through Christian and Stone counties in Missouri towards the Arkansas state line.

[5] It was used as part of the Trail of Tears and during the Civil War, when Confederate soldiers often cut the telegraph line.

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