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The " company town " included a sawmill, planer, railroad maintenance shops, housing, and stores, a bank, hotel, and ice factory, and provision for fire and police protection.

The lumber conglomerate also provided land for construction of a school and churches.

The company, then known as Dierks Forests, Inc., divested itself of residential and other properties unrelated to the primary mission on August 13, 1965.

In 1966 the town achieved incorporation and elected its first officials.

As Wright City was no longer just a " mill town ," citizens took the initiative to create an independent, distinctive municipality.

A business district was developed, utilities were upgraded and expanded, and new schools, a community building, and a medical center were built.