Author: Kaitlyn McConnell, OzarksAlive.com, for SGFNN

This article originally appeared on OzarksAlive.com and was reposted with permission. When Springfield’s Convention Hall was proposed in 1910, city leaders were convinced it was going to make the city a much larger spot on the map. After all, they surmised, a center would bring conventions, exhibitions and events to town —…

This article originally appeared on OzarksAlive.com and was reposted with permission. When Springfield’s University Club set about commemorating noteworthy Greene County sites with markers in the 1920s, its aim was historic preservation. Now, however, the work itself has become a piece of Springfield’s history — because nearly 100 years later, many of those markers still stand in plain sight.…