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PRECEDENT STUDIESPRECEDENT STUDIESBicycle Paths and Greenway Trails

Springfield, a mid-sized city, incorporates trails for bicyclists within the heart of the city, and on the country outskirts ranging from two to thirty-five miles long. Cyclists have proven that by leaving their cars behind and riding their bicycles, that it is not only a faster way to commute, but it provides exercise as well. Towns can get grants for bicycle paths from various Federal Departments. The Department of Health give grants for providing exercise for the citizens. The Department of Transportation offers grants for the implementation of alternative source of energy usage. And the Department of Education also gives grants due to the knowledge of going on the right side of the road. Trails and greenways are ideal for nature walks and events to take place in the wilderness. Speed limits on bike trails are usually 20 mph, and ethics are used to warn slower trail walkers that they will be passed

Reasons for Alternative Commuting• ConserveResources• Non-Polluting• Inexpensive• RelievesTrafficCongestion• WorkOutWhileCommuting• ExperienceNature• ImproveHealth,EnergyandProductivity• 42,800PeopleDiefromAutomobileAccidentsWhileAbouta Thousand Die on Bicycles • CometoWorkRefreshedandEnergized

Trails in Small Towns• Small towns have usually small residential streets with low speed limits deeming dedicated bike paths unnecessary.• Pavingbicyclelanesisveryexpensive.• Implementingabicycle trailoragreenwaydoesn’tmeanthat it will be used• Aprogrammerwouldneedtobehired.• Onaverage,a1-milepavedbicycletrailcosts$225,000.Thiscost is without the land it is being built on, bridges, lights or benches. • Trails bring communities together if a good programmerarrangeseventssuchasaChristmasWalk,orhavethepossibilityfor events,programs, and activities• TrailsandGreenwaysareoneofthetopreasonspeoplemoveto certain areas.• Smalltownsneedtrailstopromotecommunityandeventsfor biking, walking, etc.

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RESEARCH ANALYSISRESEARCH ANALYSISEarly Settlers and Pioneers

1849CaliforniaGoldRush• ManysettlerstraveledtoCaliforniainhopesofstrikingitrich.Mostneverreturnedhomeafterwards.• AftertheGoldRush,the1854Kansas-NebraskaActcausedtroubles for the Missouri-Kansas border and kept causingtroublesuntiltheCivilWar.

PostCivilWar• EndoftheCivilWarin1861,ButlerwaspartiallyburneddownbyGeneralJimLane’stroopsastheymadetheirwaytoSt. Clair County.• When Order 11 was issued in August 1863, the rest ofButlerwasburneddown.BatesCountybecamea“no-man’s”land.• Itisestimatedtheonly40%ofthe6800originalcitizensreturned to the burnt down town and nothingness. • TheDrakeConstitutionwhichbannedConfederatesfromreturningwasabolishedaround1870.

1880’sandOn• Land-speculators, and business men start moving toButler and Bates County. Themajority came from Illinois,Iowa,Ohio, Indiana;and somewereEuropean immigrantsduringtheearly1880’s• Afterthe1880’sthetownstartedtogrowrapidly,duetothe mining of coal and construction of the railroad. • Butlerwas thefirst citywestof theMississippi tohaveelectricity. • OhioStreetwasnamed“TheGreatWhiteWay”ofButlerbecause of its white lamp posts implemented along the street. Roads• US-71(JeffersonHighway)wasahighwaythatstartedinTalbert,CanadatoNewOrleans.• Therouteisimportantbecauseitgaveamoredirectrouteand made Butler a stop along the highway to increase visitors or even increase population.•US-71 is 2,300miles and could be traveled allwithin thesame time zone.

The Great Depression • ManyofButlers citizensmovedtoKansasCity to try tofind work at factories, depleting the population significantly since many lost their land.

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• AftertheLouisianaPurchase,manypioneersfloodedintotheregion.Mostlyfurtrappers,andtraders.• BatesCountywasformedin1841/boundarieswerecre-atedin1855.• ButlerwaspartofOsageCountywhichgotitsnamefromtheOsageIndians.• MissourisignedatreatytomovetheOsageIndianstoOklahomawheretheynowreside.