Tag: history
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
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If you’ve ever wondered where the Boonslick region gets its name, the answer is a couple hours’ drive from Rocheport, on Missouri Highway 187 near Boonesboro — a spring the Osage people used for centuries…
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in “Boonslick”
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If you’ve ever wondered why this whole stretch of the Missouri River — Rocheport included — gets called the Boonslick, or Boonslick Country, the answer isn’t some marketing invention. It’s a literal salt spring, about…
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How Daniel Boone’s Sons Put the Salt in ‘Boonslick’
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If you have ever wondered why the stretch of Missouri rolling west from Boone County into Howard, Cooper, and Saline counties carries the name Boonslick, the answer is older than Missouri statehood — and it…
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Every Building on the Block: How Rocheport Became a National Historic District
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Walk down Central Street on any October morning, and the limestone gutters beneath your feet are older than the Civil War. Glance past the brick storefronts and you might catch the steeple of a congregation…
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Still Playing After Nearly Two Centuries: Thespian Hall and Boonville’s Love of the Stage
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On the corner of Main and Vine Streets in Boonville, a Greek Revival building has been hosting audiences since the summer of 1857. Thespian Hall — its columns a quiet landmark in Cooper County’s seat…
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When 500 Steamboats a Year Tied Up at Rocheport’s Wharf
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Stand on the Rocheport riverfront today and the Missouri rolls quietly past — a trail town of 208 residents, bed-and-breakfasts, and cyclists stopping for coffee. A century and a half ago, this same bend in…
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Old Franklin: The River Town the Missouri Swallowed
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Just across the water from Rocheport, where the Missouri bends north toward Boonville, there is nothing but a grassy bank and a wayside marker beside the highway. That is all that remains of a town…
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The Boone County Lawmaker Who Won Missouri Its University
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Drive through Columbia today and Mizzou feels like it’s always just been there. It wasn’t a given. Missouri had to decide where to put its state university, and six centrally located counties all wanted it.…
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George Caleb Bingham: The Boonslick’s Own Painter of River Life
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired a canvas called Fur Traders Descending the Missouri in 1933, curators were rediscovering a painter the art world had largely set aside since his death…
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Annie Fisher: The Boone County Baker Who Built a Nationwide Empire
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Before overnight shipping existed, before anyone dreamed of ordering food from across the country with a click, orders for Annie Fisher’s beaten biscuits were arriving in Columbia from New York, Denver, and Los Angeles. Fisher…