A couple of miles northeast of Carthage,  MO and just off Route 66 is Red Oak II – a ghost town, but not really. Red Oak II was actually the brainchild of artist Lowell Davis who grew up in the &quot;real” Red Oak,  Missouri, about 18 miles northwest of the &quot;new” Red Oak II.  He began to buy homes and businesses from the original townsite and other rural ghost towns, painstakingly moving them to the new site and restoring them to their original &quot;grandeur.”