I am more of a cat person, but as an alumni of the University of Central Missouri I know quite a bit about one incredibly special dog. During the fall semester of my freshman year I had to take a short course that was supposed to help me succeed in college. Our instructor thought it…
Recently we’ve been enjoying some local brews at Wire Road Brewing Company in Battlefield. The place just oozes Ozarks history. Its outdoor beer garden is a throwback to the biergartens that German immigrants used to frequent in the days before Prohibition. Even several of the beers are named for historic persons and places in Missouri….
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….
I read a weird story about a cave up in Miller County, Missouri. I know that isn’t local, but this tale is odd enough that I think you’ll still enjoy. The site is known as Wilson’s Cave, and as strange as the story is, eyewitness accounts seem to verify that it is at least mostly…
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…
This photo shows two men in the cab of an Austin-Western No. 77 Senior Dual Drive Motor Grader working on Truck Trail Road 380 in June 1937. According to Keith Haddock’s 2002 Earthmover Encyclopedia, the Austin 77 series of graders were of an advanced design that offered blade movements similar to machines of today. Interestingly,…
In the cemetery, Nathan and Olive Boone’s graves are among the few of the known locations. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources usually uses ground-penetrating radar, or GPR, for finding waterlines and leaks or buried tanks. However, the department put that technology to another use at Nathan and Olive Boone Homestead State Historic Site, where…
By Dennis Evans A copy of Moses Carver’s deed. In the early history of our country, we were an agrarian society and were encouraged by the federal government to expand westward to recently acquired land. Thomas Jefferson wanted small tracts of land available to farmers, so that democracy would spread in the new territories. …
