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6 unusual facts about Waynesville


Daniel W. Mills

Born near Waynesville, Ohio, Mills attended the common schools of Rayesville and the Waynesville High School.

Midwestern Hayride

In 2009, WYNS-FM, a low-power community FM station in Waynesville, Ohio (north of Cincinnati), announced it would commence a similar live weekly country music broadcast, The Ohio Hayride, beginning May 15, 2010.

Waynesville, Missouri

Military personnel assigned to training areas on the south end of the post sometimes choose to live in the unincorporated areas of Big Piney and Pulaski County, or the northern Texas County communities of Plato and Roby.

South of Interstate 44, Highway 17 hugs the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood, passes near Laquey, and circles south of the post until it runs out of the county and eventually joins Highway 32 in Roby.

Waynesville, North Carolina

The area of Waynesville located along Richland Creek, northwest and down hill from Main Street, was where the railroad tracks were laid.

Waynesville is serviced by two or more freight trains daily via the Norfolk Southern Railway and is connected to Interstate 40 and the rest of Southwestern North Carolina via the Great Smoky Mountains Expressway giving it easy access to Knoxville, Tennessee and Asheville.


Adventures in Preservation

AiP volunteers have played a key role in restoration projects at the Francis Mill in Waynesville, North Carolina; the Weisel Bridge, Quakertown, Pennsylvania; Manor House in Oplotnica, Slovenia; the gardens of the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, The Bronx, New York; and adobe residences in Mesilla, New Mexico.

KIIK

KOZQ-FM, a radio station (102.3 FM) licensed to Waynesville, Missouri, which held the call sign KIIK-FM from 2007 to 2011

Laquey, Missouri

Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia.


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