KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri State Fire Marshal is investigating the cause of a fire that destroyed a rural southwest Missouri general store that was a famous landmark for Boy Scouts.
Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, firefighters from several west-central Missouri fire departments were called to Scott’s Iconium Store in rural Iconium, Missouri, about 100 miles southeast of Kansas City.
The Iconium Fire Protection District reported no injuries to firefighters or civilians, and despite that the building walls and roof remained standing after the fire was extinguished, the interior of the building was destroyed.
The general store, which has played an important role in the area since 1896, grew into a tourist stop for Boy Scouts visiting the nearby H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation (https://www.hoac-bsa.org/bartle).
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