Excelsior Springs owes its existence to a natural spring that
for ages gushed forth from remote depths of the earth at the edge of a pretty
river near the western border of what is now Fishing River
Township , Clay County,
Missouri.
I think these days they would have just "photo-shopped" the bank out of the picture rather than the attempt to use "white-out"...interesting that they still accented the banks window awnings.