Welton Park

The Petersburg Gap is a natural wonder exposing Helderberg limestone and Oriskany sandstone cliffs towering more than 800 feet above the South Branch of the Potomac River. The renowned writer and artist, David Hunter Strother whose pen name was ...

The Red House Interpretive Center

The Red House Interpretive Center, under construction from 2002-2004, is a cooperative effort of the Cape Girardeau Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission and the City of Cape Girardeau. The project was funded in part through grants from the Missouri Department ...

Cape Girardeau and the Railroad

After the golden age of the steamboat, port cities like Cape Girardeau suffered as railroads provided alternate means of transportation.

Responding to the post-Civil War railroad boom, a syndicated of local business leaders formed the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad ...

Cape Girardeau River Crossings

In the 1790s, the Spanish governor granted Louis Lorimier permission to operate a ferry service at Cape Girardeau.

Thereafter, ferry operators continued to shuttle people and products across the Mississippi River until 1928 when a new, privately built bridge ended the ...

Pioneer Burial Ground

Established in 1793 by

Col. Charles Williamson

For his little daughter

who died of Genesee Fever

Village of Bath

Marker is on West Steuben Street just west of Exchange Street, on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Champion Beech Tree

This stately Beech is one of the largest and oldest trees in the State of Missouri. A registered "champion" tree, it is approximately 200 years old. Quite possibly it was alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

The ...

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company

One of the most unusual WWI Mississippi River transportation stories concerns the Manitowoc [Wisconsin] Shipbuilding Co., the nation's only inland builder of submarines.

In December 1940, the U.S. Navy contracted with the company to construct 10 Gato class submarines.

Subsequently, ...

Maximilian Joseph - Earl of Montgelas

Maximilian Joseph - Graf von Montgelas

[Marker text in German:]

Von 1799 bis 1816 lenkte Maximilian Joseph Graf von Montgelas als Minister die Geschicke Bayerns. Nach den Grundsätzen der Aufklärung formte er durch umwälzende Reformen das moderne Bayerische Staatswesen.

Die Skulptur wurde 2005 ...

President James Buchanan

“The incorruptible statesman whose walk was upon the mountain ranges of the law.”

Life long friend Jermiah S. Black

U.S. Attorney General 1857-1860, U.S. Secretary of State 1860-1861

This park commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th President of the ...

Hampshire County Courthouse

Secession and Occupation

On May 23, 1861, Virginians voted in a statewide referendum to approve or disapprove the Ordinance of Secession that the convention in Richmond had passed on April 17. Here at the Hampshire County Courthouse, 1,188 out of 2,635 ...