Guides
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When the War Came to the River: Rocheport in the Guerrilla Autumn of 1864
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…
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The Neighbor Who Won Missouri Its University: James S. Rollins
Long before the University of Missouri was a fixture of Columbia life, it was an open question which town would get it — and it…
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Running a College Before She Could Vote: Luella St. Clair Moss
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…
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The Columbia Lawyer Who Became a Union General: Odon Guitar
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…
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When Rocheport Threw Missouri’s Great Log-Cabin Rally of 1840
Long before it was a Katy Trail stop, our little river town drew steamboats, brass bands and — by some accounts — thousands of people…
About This Desk
This is the desk that writes the useful stuff — how to spend a Rocheport weekend, where the trail actually goes, how town elections actually work. Every guide is researched and sourced, and built to be kept and come back to, not skimmed once and forgotten.
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