Major Mite's home?

Dec. 15, 2012. I could be wrong, but I think where the diesel tanks at Cheema's are now located was once the site of the childhood home of Clarence Chesterfield Howerton, otherwise known as "Major Mite" one of the smallest men in the world. Howerton had a career in the circus and even had a role in the Wizard of Oz film as a Munchkin (3rd trumpteer heralding the arrival of the Munchkin Mayor).

As late as the 1960s there was still a home sitting at the spot where the diesel tanks now reside.

Major Mite lived here at the same time as Cecil "Primo" Boling, one of the tallest persons in the USA. As a result McCleary was the subject of a lot of press at the time wondering what was in our water supply.

You are here

Sept. 15, 2013, Rainbow Park.

Rainbow Park was constructed in the early 1980s on a piece of land that once was the northeast corner of Henry McCleary's mill. McCleary's tallest resident, Cecil "Primo" Boling, 1920-2000 (7 ft. 8 in. before his lower legs were amputated), was a resident there in his final years.

At one point in the 1990s the city allowed the residents of Rainbow Park to have a large fenced vegetable garden in the area where there is now a big gravel circle in Beerbower Park. The garden project was a short-lived concept.