Abraham Lincoln Came Often to Boonville

While living with his father on a farm about seventeen miles from here, came often to Boonville to hear court trials and to borrow books from John A. Brackenridge.

From this corner Abraham Lincoln traveled North by ox-team on the Old ...

Boonville

Side A:

Historic Boonville's first settlers were pioneer Mother Hannah Allison Cole and her 9 children who located on the Missouri River bluffs where St. Joseph Hospital now stands, 1810. Hannah, whose husband William T. Cole was killed by Indians, ran ...

Battle of Boonville

A State Divided: The Civil War in Missouri

On June 17, 1861, the Battle of Boonville took place at this and other locations along this road. By most standards of warfare, the Battle of Boonville was more truly a skirmish or ...

The Battle of Boonville

On the morning of June 17, 1861, one of the first engagements of the War Between the States occurred between State and Federal troops here in the hills below Boonville. The engagement began at 8 A.M. and ended near this ...

Capture of Boonville

To commemorate the battles

June 17th. and Sept. 13th. 1861

and capture of Boonville

Oct. 16, 1864

See marker four blocks south

Monument Committee G.A.R.

C. C. Bell, Commander

F. J. Boller, Quartermaster.

1931

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Missouri Route 5/87) and Court Street, on ...

Boonville Veterans Memorial

In memory of all those

who served in the

Armed Forces of the

United States of America

Dedicated this 5th Day of October, 2004

Designed by Sabra Tull Meyer

"Freedom Flight"

Sculptor Sabra Tull Meyer

Dedicated November 11, 2009

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Missouri Route ...