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Fishing in the White River and the popularity of Lake Taneycomo laid the foundation for the town becoming a popular vacation destination. Country music artists from across the nation also found the area a suitable destination, starting with Red Foley, and later Boxcar Willie and Roy Clark, among others.
Clark opened the Celebrity Theatre in now the Hughes Brothers Theatre , helping cement Branson as a respected country music town. Today, as stated on Branson. World-class entertainment, beautiful Ozark scenery and more await you here, and the best way see it all is by staying in an Amazing Branson rental cabin.
It was officially under that name for only two years, according to United States Post Office records, and became Branson again in The Lucia post office is reported to have stood just above the present Branson High School. In the meantime, Rueben S. Branson became county assessor. The Branson name was well known in the county by then, long before Branson as a city was big enough for much notice.
In Forsyth, Rueben went from the office of assessor to that of county and circuit clerk and recorder. Later he opened a distillery near Forsyth, and also operated a boarding house. Reuben's brother, Galba, in the meantime, had become sheriff of Taney County. There was trouble at a picnic on the Fourth of July in , and "Gab" was killed before it was over, as was a United States marshall.
Interest in Branson as a commuity with good business prospects surged when it was learned that the railroad would soon come to it. Among the early merchants to open establishments was Mr. Samuel Parnell, who brought his stock of goods from his Kirbyville store to the new town in The streets had very recently been laid out and the public was advised to "look out for stumps. In , a new bank, a hotel and a livery stable were opened. A new school district was organized the following year, as the railroad's completion continued to attract new residents.
By , when Mr. Whelchel, in partnership with Mr. Bennett, opened his hardware store, the brick buildiing now housing the Security Bank and another brick structure across the street to the southeast showed the town's growing prosperiity. The first steel bridge in the county was being contracted for to cross the river at Branson. But just a few weeks after Mr. Whelchel's store opened fifty years ago this August, Branson's business section was burned down, almost in its entirety.
The fire reported to have started in the Commercial Hotel, where Dillon's store now stands, when someone left the flame burning under a kerosene heated flatiron.
The flames swept through the town too swiftly for effective control. The present Security Bank building was among the few left standing when it was over. Apparently, the city that bears the name of the fine old American family of Branson, had enough of its pioneering spirit to rebuild itself better than before and to continue its growth, long before the building of the dam at Powersite created Lake Taneycomo and inspired the tourists business which now contributes so heavily to Branson's prosperity.
Reuben Branson lived to see much change in his namesake town. He died in Forsyth in While most of the Branson family members have left the White River Valley, there is a grandson of Reuben's brother, Lewis, still residing on one of the farms the Bransons homesteaded in Taney County.
Acknowledgements - Several members of the Branson family very kindly sent material to aid in the preparation of this article, and we are most grateful to each of them. Especially helpful have been Mrs. Branson's grandson, Mr. Dillard M. Branson of Jefferson City. Springfield-Greene County Library. Branson, Missouri, [3] The two eldest sons of Thomas, Sr. Thomas Branson reads: "The Def't being called and failing to appear, the pl't in Court produced the Def't note of hand for pounds of Crop Tobacco or Two pounds fourteen shillings and ten pence Virginia Curr'y Therefore it is Considered by the Court that the said Pl't recover ag't the said Def't the said sun of pounds of tobacco or 2 pounds 14 shillings and ten pence Virginia Currency and Costs of Suit.
Branson [5] "The thirteen children are named in the order of their births as follows: Alfred P. The first steel bridge in the county was being contracted for to cross the river at Branson [6] But just a few weeks after Mr.
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