About

Our history encompasses the Trail of Tears, the Civil War, Route 66 and the building of Fort Leonard Wood. We offer a great outdoors, affordable housing and award winning schools.   If you're looking for a place with friendly people, you have found a home.

In 1832, G.W. Gibson, made his home on the banks of the Roubidoux, near the Big Spring, on the Kickapoo Trace, in the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri. Two years later, in 1834, William Moore and Josiah Christeson donated the land for the town site. Pulaski County surveyor, Thomas P. Masterson, platted the town, and Cyrus Colley was tasked with selling the lots. Harvey Wood, the first postmaster, named his new post office in honor of Revolutionary War hero “Mad Anthony” Wayne, and thus, Waynesville was born.