The Smithville Chamber of Commerce congratulates the winners of the 2021 Smithville mayoral, City Council and school board elections. Thank you for your willingness to serve the community.
As many of you may know, we just passed the two-year anniversary of the loss of our building to fire in 2019. The silver lining to all of this is our beautiful new building at the end of Main Street; official address: 106 NE First St. We have been so excited to watch the building take shape and we can’t wait to start moving in. We will be closing the chamber on May 19-21 to make the big move into the new building and assist with the completion of the museum. Many big “thank yous” go out to Murphy’s Vintage for their incredible work designing and installing the museum artifacts and to Dave Felker for managing the restoration of the artifacts. It has been an emotional journey and the entire chamber board and staff thanks: Jack Page, Robert Tamble, Bennie Rooks, Scott Saunders, Joanna Morgan, Jill Strube, Brad Murphy, Angela Murphy, Kelly Holt, the Smithville Garden Club and many others for all they’ve done to make the new facility a reality. Be sure to join us for the formal grand opening ceremony on June 2 at 5 p.m. Among others, we’ll hear from railroad historian Bruce Blalock who will tell us the significance of the design and location of the new building.