They have done a lot of research to help them in their goal to restore the Buildings back to how they were. There were tourist cabins up the hill at Camp Lookout, that you could rent nightly and a wooden dance floor that was a popular attraction to the many travelers passing through on Route 66.įrancis and Mary Lynn Ryan purchased Spencer in 2007. In its heyday, Spencer was an important stop along Route 66. As of today, the highway in front of Spencer is the only one of four stretches of Route 66 that has the original concrete road and has never been overlaid or widened. They used the water from Johnson Creek and mixed their concrete by hand in sleds and used teams of horses to pull the sleds to the roadway and hand troweled the concrete. They had several hundred men that were used to construct the highway. This land was also important because across the road there was a labor camp. And eventually after many years his dream had been fulfilled. He contacted the owner of this property, Frank Johnson, and paid him S400.00 for the entire asking price, for the store building and two acres of land. He wanted this dream so bad that he walked 100 miles on foot to buy the property in July 1925. post Office and feed store (all but the cafe and barber shop were operated by the Casey family). He had the vision to know that some day when the road came through, it would be an excellent location to operate the many business’s that he eventually had, such as, service station garage, cafe, grocery store, barber shop. Sidney Casey heard that the first major east to west highway (U S Route 66) would be constructed through the center of the United States. The story behind Spencer was one man’s dream.

Missouri is a very important part of the historical Route 66. their stories, the structures that they have seen, and their appreciation Spencer. The spirit Of Route 66 lives on in people. Each person tends to experience the road differently There is a certain spirit / feeling, that resides along Route 66. Prior to that the place was known as Johnson’s Mill.

The community was named after a local merchant whose store was known as “Spencer”. A post office called Spencer was established in 1868, and remained in operation until 1907. Route 66 (now a county road) approximately six miles west of Halltown. Spencer is a small unincorporated crossroads in eastern Lawrence County, Missouri, United States.

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