This week, Growing Power, 5500 W. Silver Spring Dr., is headed to Missouri's Stark Bro's Nurseries to pick up more than 4,000 donated fruit trees that will be planted on empty lots in the City of ...
In 1907, William P. Stark purchased 700 acres of land between Newtonia and the little hamlet of Chester in eastern Newton County to establish a nursery for fruit trees. He changed the name of Chester ...
LOUISIANA, Missouri — In 1816, a young pioneer from Kentucky, James Hart Stark, homesteaded on the western shore of the Mississippi River at the site of what is now Louisiana, Missouri. Stark had ...