Do NOT hike across the RR tracks... take Royal Oak Dr right to the cemetery where there's plenty of easy parking. Great place to drop off TBs and geocoins.
Gretna was a town built along the old White River Railroad, originally deeded to the railroad by the father of Floyd Jones, who recalled the original town formation: "Father sold the right of way through our narrow bottom field [at Gretna.] It was one fourth mile long where they put a pass track. He [received] seventy five dollars for the right of way with a contract that the company would built a depot on the place. They built the depot but never put an agent there and they let it rot down. Dad figured he would have quite a town there, but was very much disappointed. He laid out what land into lots that was level enough to build on. There was a post office established, a mail crane and you could flag the passenger train if you wanted to ride it. Otherwise it did not stop. The fare to Branson was five cents. There were two stores and a tie and cedar post yard. There was a church built on the place, the first one in the neighborhood. The Dewey Grove school house was torn down and re erected on the old place. I helped lay the track into Branson the summer of 1905."
Be sure to check out some of the old stones, some dated from the 1870s! The family buried there even before the town and still do to this day.