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A short drive down County Road 508 in Bollinger County leads to the quiet site of the former location of the Grassy Towersite.
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Among local legends in the Ste. Genevieve community of Zell is one concerning a cave used for aging local products of the brewer’s art.
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In early 1882, three would-be entrepreneurs from Illinois, Dr. Henry Clay Fish, Richard P. Dobbs and James G. Christian, tested the waters of several springs in Perry County.
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The road to getting federal land into private hands through purchase was often complicated in the early 1800s.
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William H. McLane, born July 6, 1816, was the youngest of six sons of John McLane and Lydia Lawrence McLane.
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Perhaps the most prominent man and largest landowner from Lincoln County, North Carolina, to move to Missouri in the early 1800s was Captain Henry Whitener.
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Early settlers in the old lead belt that became Washington and adjacent counties were French until the late 1790s.
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One of the factors that plagued east-west transportation in the Missouri Bootheel was blockage by swamps running mostly north-south.
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Missouri’s counties are named for national or religious heroes, Presidents, geographic features, and politicians, among others.
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Even though Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, the invention caught on slowly.