Category: Local History
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When the War Came to the River: Rocheport in the Guerrilla Autumn of 1864
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This is not a story we tell to admire anyone. We tell it because it happened here, and because understanding what the Civil War did to this bend in the river means looking squarely at…
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The Neighbor Who Won Missouri Its University: James S. Rollins
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Long before the University of Missouri was a fixture of Columbia life, it was an open question which town would get it — and it took a stubborn Boone County lawmaker named James S. Rollins…
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Running a College Before She Could Vote: Luella St. Clair Moss
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For Women’s History Month, a Columbia story that still lands with a jolt: a woman ran a college here — and helped lead a national movement — years before the law let her cast a…
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The Columbia Lawyer Who Became a Union General: Odon Guitar
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Before he led cavalry across central Missouri in the Civil War, Odon Guitar was a Boone County courtroom fixture and one of the University of Missouri’s earliest graduates. His life bridges the town’s two great…
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When Rocheport Threw Missouri’s Great Log-Cabin Rally of 1840
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Long before it was a Katy Trail stop, our little river town drew steamboats, brass bands and — by some accounts — thousands of people for a three-day political spectacle in the summer of 1840.…