Prosperity, Missouri

[1][2] It is northeast of Joplin and just southeast of Webb City, sitting east of Missouri State Highway 249.

[4] It began in 1888 at the site of the Troup Mining Company operation on 40 acres of land.

The Southwest Missouri Electric Railway Company, forerunner of the Southwest Missouri Railroad Company, which had already linked Joplin to Webb City in 1893, was expanded from Webb City in 1894 to Carterville and into Prosperity.

[4] But a reduction in lead prices in the late 1920s and other factors resulted in ongoing decline in the settlement.

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