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A little about Maryville

Our Northwest Missouri State University has been recognized nationally for its innovative"electronic campus," its strong educational reputation and its competitive intercollegiate athletic programs. Our fertile valleys make for a historically rich agricultural economy. A vibrant, and growing, industrial community completes the making of Maryville the focal point of Northwest Missouri, southwestern Iowa and northeastern Nebraska. Add to those attractive attributes a diversified array of city parks and recreational facilities, including the 3,000-acre Mozingo Lake Park area; outstanding elementary, secondary and technical schools; and a schedule of annual art, music and other cultural events and you will readily recognize that Maryville is the place you have been seeking.

The history of Maryville

On rolling prairie above the scenic One Hundred and Two River, Maryville was laid out, 1845, as the seat of newly organized Nodaway County. The town is named for its first white woman settler, Mary House Graham, the wife of county official Amos Graham. The county name comes from the Nodaway (Algonquian for snake or enemy) River. A northern border county, it is the largest of 6 formed from Platte Purchase territory acquired from the Indians, 1836. Here is Northwest Missouri State College founded by the state legislature in 1905 as the Fifth District Normal School. Maryville and Nodaway Co. were awarded the school location for which they bid $58,672 and 86 acres including the building and grounds of Maryville (Methodist) Seminary, founded 1889. The college maintains an early farm implements display and an art collection.

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