Warrensburg Wedding

Warrensburg is a city in Johnson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 16,340 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Johnson CountyGR6. The Warrensburg Micropolitan Statistical Area consists of Johnson County. It is home to Central Missouri State University and has a small business district.

The old court house is the site of the court case involving Old Drum, which provided the famous eulogy to a dog.

Warrensburg is close to the site of a horrific Missouri Pacific train wreck that occurred in 1904. An eastbound passenger train collided head-on with a westbound freight, killing 30 people. The passenger train was packed with people en route to St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair.

Famous children's book author Dean Hughes got his first job teaching English at Central Missouri State University in 1972, and in the early 1980s, Hughes chose Warrensburg and the university as the setting for his first successful series of children's books, the Nutty Nutsell Series. Hughes then moved to his hometown in Utah to pursue a full-time writing career.

Warrensburg was also one of the original selections for the nuclear-ravaged town in the ABC TV-movie The Day After.