McCormick is situated in the northwestern part of Pope County, in Township 11-5, Union precinct, and once was a post office and a small country village. It was established by C. L. McCormick about 45 years ago. Mr. McCormick had a general store and handled almost anything that people bought, and did a thriving business. He also bought almost everything farmers had to sell, including hooppoles, and had them manufactured into hoops, which was a thriving business. Also he ran a grist mill and hoopsaw and extracted pennyroyal from pennyroyal, which was plentiful at that time.
About the year 1900 Mr. McCormick sold Peter Morris a half-interest in his business and later Mr. Morris bought the entire business and about the year 1913 Peter Morris sold his business to James R. Barker, of Ozark, in the year of 1917.
In 1919 the two McCormick boys, Dewey and Arthur, put in a general store and did a thriving business for a few years. They later moved their business, Dewey going to Ozark and Arthur going to New Burnside.
J. T. Parsons put in a store after the McCormick boys left and was in business about two years.
In 1932 C. M. Baker began a store at McCormick and is still in business.
McCormick is the voting place of Union precinct and is near the center.
McCormick is halfway between Stonefort, Ozark and Eddyville and is at the wye on star route from Stonefort to Eddyville.
We will mention some of the men that were reared around McCormick who have become prominent in life: John W. Browning, deceased, an able attorney; W. D. Beans, William Dent, Dempsey Rose, also noted lawyers, also, our present Congressman, C. V. Parsons, was reared one and a half-mile east of McCormick on a farm which is still in the Parson family. Could name several more boys and girls, native of this community, who have made their mark in the world.

Copied from Trampe's Pope County Historical Review.
Newspaper article written about 1934.