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This GeoArt is to celebrate Missouri turning 200 years old this year. What better way to celebrate the Bicentennial!!
MISSOURI BECOMES THE 24TH STATE ADMITTED INTO THE UNITED STATES AUGUST 10, 1821.
You will learn about some famous Missourian's while solving this GeoArt.
Around 1864, George Washington Carver was born a slave on the Moses and Susan Carver farm in Diamond, Missouri. Carver triumphed over a life of slavery to achieve international fame as a scientist, botanist and educator. In the Reconstruction South, an agricultural monoculture of cotton depleted the soil, and in the early 20th century, the boll weevil destroyed much of the cotton crop. Carver's work on peanuts was intended to provide an alternative crop.Through intensive research, he developed more than 300 by-products from the peanut and sweet potato. He is also known for his work in the fields of soil fertilization and crop diversification. Carver was the first chair of the Department of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama
What Missouri town was George Washington Carver born?
A.N 38° 25.462 W 93° 21.129 Tipton
B. N 38° 24.788 W 93° 22.505 Tightwad
C. N 038 24.337 W 093 20.78 Diamond