Saturday, January 08, 2005
California, Missouri - 1149.5 miles
The central Missouri town of California -- with 4,005 residents, 10 churches and a turkey-processing factory on Route, where the showpiece annual event is the Ozark Ham and Turkey Festival. The high school football game are packed on Fridays, the pews on Sunday, and $100,00 gets you three bedrooms and 2,800 square feet seven days a week
Legend has it the town on the edge of the Ozarks got its name during a house-raising in 1848, when California Wilson told two early settlers that he'd buy them each a jug of whisky if they would name the town after him.
Legend has it the town on the edge of the Ozarks got its name during a house-raising in 1848, when California Wilson told two early settlers that he'd buy them each a jug of whisky if they would name the town after him.
