Occupied Beverly

Caught in the Midst of Conflict

Life in Beverly changed following the Union victory at Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861. Many of the community’s outspoken Southern sympathizers fled south. Some of those who remained resented the hardship that came with ...

Lee-Jackson House

Here lived

Margaret Junkin Preston

1848 – 1857

Poetess of the Confederacy

Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson

1853 – 1857

Robert E. Lee

1865 – 1869

Placed by

The Rockbridge Historical Society

1957

Marker is on W Washington Street, on the right when traveling west.

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President Buchanan’s Home

1796 – 1829

Marker is on N. Main Street (Pennsylvania Route 16) north of E Seminary Street, on the right when traveling north.

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Dr. Hugh Mercer

A physician and surgeon, practiced in the Conococheague settlement 1750 – 1755, and lived in this locality during that time. A personal friend of Washington, a general in the Revolutionary Army, he received his death wounds at the Battle of ...

Old Lorimier Cemetery

Cape Girardeau's

Oldest Shrine

Earliest Inscription 1808

In this old cemetery

gift of

Don Louis Lorimier

lie pioneers, founders, builders and defenders of our country.

Marker is on North Fountain Street.

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Cape La Croix Creek

In 1699, fathers Montigny, Davion, and St. Cosme, French missionaries erected a cross where this stream entered the Mississippi and prayed that this might be the beginning of Christianity among the Indians.

The stream has ever since been known as Cape ...

War in Grant County

Engagement at Johnson Run

During the Civil War, loyal Unionist Home Guard companies patrolled Hardy County (now Grant County) to defend it against Confederate incursions. Near here on Johnson Run on June 19, 1864, a mixed command that included men from ...

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 ...

Cemetery Hill

Fighting Among the Tombstones

During the Civil War, Moorefield could be seen in front of you from this then-treeless hill. Beyond the town is the confluence of two watercourses that form the South Branch River, which flows north through a fertile ...

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 ...