Diamond

Town in Newton County, southwest Missouri; population (1990) 800. It is situated 19 km/12 mi southeast of Joplin. George Washington Carver, the noted scientist long associated with Alabama's Tuskegee Institute, was born here. His home, to the southwest of the town, is now part of the George Washington Carver National Monument.


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