Rocheport history
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Rocheport’s Civil War Colonel and the Mystery of the ‘Hermit of the Wabash’
The Friends of Rocheport Historical Society added a new name to its Hall of Fame this June: Robert Alexander Caskie, a Scottish-born tobacco and banking businessman who spent his final years in our town —…
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The Rocheport Bank That Grew Into an Empire: W.S. Woods
Walk Rocheport’s Main Street today and you won’t find a bank. But in 1869, this small river town is where a Missouri doctor-turned-merchant put down the first stone of what became an eighteen-bank fortune —…