The Pickett Hotel (Later Beatty's) where Butler Abstract and LeNeaves is now, the LaClede Hotel where the mattress store just west of Jennings is now and the Day, later Southern Hotel in the empty lot south of the Methodist Church.
The Lindsay Stage and Mail line had several routes - NW thru Virginia, Mulberry, West Point and on to LaCygne, E thru Pleasant Gap and Lahai and on to Appleton City and then south to Osceola. Anthony Lindsay was born in Nova Scotia and came to Bates County in 1870 to run the mail and stagecoach lines.
Thanks to the Butler Historic Preservation Commission for bringing our history to light and to all the volunteers who are helping.
