Lebanon Township

About the Lebanon Township

The main communities are as follows:

	Brush Creek, Township 34N, Range 16W, Section 32.
	Lebanon

Current information about this city can be found at Lebanon City Data.

The history of Lebanon below was taken from the book History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1889.

The 1889 Laclede History reflects the following:

Lebanon

The county seat of Laclede County, Lebanon, is pleasantly located on the main line of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad, 184 miles from St. Louis, on the Ozark Plateau, 1,280 feet above sea level. Its origin has been given in connection with the organization of the county. Benjamin B. Harrison, one of the original proprietors of the town site, was the first merchant of the place, having opened his store some two years before the town was established, and continued in business about six years. In 1853 Thomas Hooker and John B. Harrison opened the next store some two years before the town was established, and continued in business about six years. Harrison died in 1860. About 1857 J. W. McClurg, of Linn Creek (since governor), opened a branch store at Lebanon. It was managed by Eugene O'Keefe, who continued it until it was broken up early in the war period. When the war began, in 1861, there were in Lebanon (old town) the stores of Hooker and McClurg, and one or two other small ones. The first hotel in the town was kept by Mr. Attoway, an the first restaurant by Joseph Fisher. At the beginning of the Civil War Lebanon was a very small village, but was doing a large amount of business. This, however, was largely suspended during the war period. At the close of the war Joe Ivey and Charles Rubey (Ivey & Ruby) opened a store, as did also Mr. Price. The latter was succeeded by Beckwith & Churchill. As soon as the First Railroad Addition to the town of Lebanon was laid out, in 1869, and the site for the depot was selected, the business began to move from the old town to this addition, where it is now principally located, and new merchants and others began to open stores. The agitation of the location of the public buildings, which has already been explained, was then being discussed. The new part of the town began to grow, and its growth has been rapid and substantial. But little business and only a few old, dilapidated buildings remain in the old town, while the new has grown to be a pleasant little city, with large two and three-story brick blocks, in which the stores are mostly located, many fine and handsome residences with well-kept lawns, seven church edifices and a magnificent public school-house.

S. Sack & Son Tailor Shop - 1900 era

This photo of Sebastian Sack in front of his tailor shop "S. Sack & Son" near the corner of Commercial and Adams in Lebanon, was taken between 1885 and 1910. Sack sold the business to Christ Hellwig in 1910. The family lived at 423 Monroe in Lebanon.