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The Amelia Earhart mural is located on Washington & Madison Streets. It depicts Earhart and her plane after a forced landing near Cuba interrupted a flight from Illinois to Los Angeles in 1948. Artists: Shelly Steiger and Julie Balogh Brand.

The Commemorative Plaque for the Amelia Earhart mural reads, in part:

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Amelia

This mural chronicles a Sept. 4, 1928 account in the Muskogee Times-Democrat. Amelia Earhart left Scott Field in Belleville, IL in her Avro plane, with a destination of Muskogee, in route to Los Angeles. She was later forced down outside of Cub. No Damage was reported, and she continued her journey. Thus, the destiny of the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and the small town of Cuba, Missouri crossed.

"Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace"
Amelia Earhart

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Plaque donated by Peoples Bank
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The Amelia Earhart Mural is on the east end of the car wash building.

There used to be a small billboard on the west end of the site that advertised the Fanning Outpost being 4 miles west of here. The billboard is still there, but the ad has changed.

Photo(s): 2012, 2017