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Did you know that one of the most unique personalities to ever live in West Plains wasn’t actually a person at all? That’s right! One of our most interesting historical characters was actually a parrot named Polly. In fact, Polly the Parrot was such a fascinating figure that her story qualified for a Legends and Lore Marker,

This article is from one that originally appeared in the West Plains Gazette Magazine. It was written by the late Dorotha Newberry Reavis In January 1873, the weather in West Plains was probably cloudy and cold. A bit of sunshine and warmth, however, came riding down from the north that month in a one-horse buggy.

One of the saddest chapters of West Plains, Missouri, history unfolded on Friday the 13th, April 1928, when thirty-eight people were killed, three brick buildings were reduced to rubble, and windows were broken out all over Court Square in the downtown area in the aftermath of an explosion which occurred in a building on East