Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Seligman, MO

Seligman is a city in Sugar Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, standing on Roller's Ridge in the far southwest corner of the state, about a mile from the Arkansas line.

Seligman grew out of a trading post that formed in the 1830s near the homestead of the Roller brothers from Virginia, and the early community was known as Roller's Ridge and Herdsville.

The first road through the Seligman area, approved in May 1841 and still recalled as part of the Old Wire Road, followed a trace cut in 1838 by Cherokee families being forcibly removed west to Oklahoma.

Seligman was transformed in 1880 when the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad built through it — arriving trains were turned around by hand on a turntable — and the railroad donated 80 acres and laid out the town's streets.

The town was platted in 1880 and named for Joseph Seligman, the prominent New York banker who had died that April, and it was incorporated on March 8, 1881.

Seligman's claim to fame is that its newspaper, the Seligman Sunbeam, on November 4, 1881 became the first newspaper in the United States to nominate Grover Cleveland for President.

Seligman was nearly wiped out three times by disastrous fires, in 1883, 1884, and again in 1922.

Seligman had a population of 813 at the 2020 census, down slightly from 851 in 2010, spread across 1.25 square miles.