Paris Springs Junction is a small, unincorporated community on former U.S. Highway 66 (now a county road west of the junction of Missouri State Highway 266 and 96). It is located in Lawrence County about four miles west of Halltown. Paris Springs Junction started as a few business on Route 66 and, with the decommmissioning of that highway, has now become only homes. It was so named because of a former town named Paris Springs to the north. That town had been founded in 1855 and survied until the time of Route 66. U.S. Highway 66 or Route 66 was and is the most famous road in the U.S. Highway system and quite possibly the most famous and storied highway in the world. ... Missouri State Highway 266 is a section of former U.S. Highway 66 with termini between Interstate 44 at Springfield and Missouri State Highway 96 west of Halltown. ... Missouri State Highway 96 is a state highway running between Interstate 44 at Halltown and Missouri State Highway 171 near Carl Junction. ... Lawrence County is a county located in the state of Missouri. ... Halltown is a village located in Lawrence County, Missouri. ...
Missouri is bordered on the north by Iowa, on the west by Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, on the south by Arkansas, and on the east by the Mississippi River, which separates it from Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois.
By 1804 the population of Missouri exceeded 10,000.
Missouri was admitted to the Union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821, by proclamation of President James Monroe, after the legislature passed a declaration that the provision barring free fls would never be enforced.
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