If you are looking for a interesting, unique but beautiful place to visit this summer, stop by the Black Madonna Shrine near Pacific, Missouri. The Black Madonna Shrine and Grottos are located on 300 acres in the foothills of the Ozarks. A grotto is a cave or artificial recess or structure made to resemble a…
The State of Missouri bought 4,200 acres of land near Riverton, Mo., in 2016 using money the state received from a settlement involving lead mining. This land was planned to be a new state park called Eleven Point State Park. The Pigman House Seven years later, the park is still not open. There were many reasons…
The Castor River runs throughout southeast Missouri. It starts about 10 miles northeast of Fredericktown in the southern corner of Ste. Genevieve County. The Upper Castor River flows south into the Headwater Diversion Channel and then into the Mississippi River. The Lower Castor River flows south of the Diversion Channel and into the Little River. The…
I like to stop when I am traveling after seeing a sign along the road that there is a historic marker ahead. These can be just a sign, marker, monument, or even a statue. There are many different kinds of historic signs and markers in Missouri, but some of my favorites are the Missouri County Historic Markers…
Meriwether Lewis was appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to be the governor of the Missouri Territory in February 1807 after he had returned from the Lewis and Clark Expedition’s Corp of Discovery in 1806. His partner, William Clark, later became the governor of the Missouri Territory in 1813, a post he held until Missouri became a state….
Did you ever wonder where the state of Missouri got its name? If you said from the Missouri River that runs through it, you would be correct but where did the river get its name? If you said from an Indian tribe, again you would be correct. Both the river and the state were named after…
Ribbon-cutting ceremony Missouri has a new state park. I attended the opening day ceremonies and ribbon-cutting to open Bryant Creek State Park on Friday, Sept. 23. Bryant Creek State Park is in Douglas County in south-central Missouri. Although there are a few Missouri Conservation Areas around, this had been an area that was void of…
There are many states that have national hall of fames and museums, and Missouri is no exception. One of those in Missouri is the National Horseshoe Pitchers Hall of Fame and Museum in Quail Ridge Park, in Wentzville, but many people don’t know that this museum exists. Playing horseshoes dates back as early as the…
