On High Street near 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.
The two story part of the building to the west of the 3-1/2 story part of the building was built in 1822 as the Ballantine House which served as a hotel. This German Style brick structure is one of the oldest still standing in Boonville and in fact . . . — — Map (db m45867) HM
On Locust Street, on the right when traveling east.
The Walnut Grove Cemetery was founded in 1852 when 4 acres were set aside in a grove of walnut trees. During the Civil War graves of battle casualties were added to the cemetery, and over the years, so were graves of many veterans. Private histories . . . — — Map (db m247259) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 40) north of Vine Street, on the right when traveling north.
By 1864, the horrors of the Civil War had reached into all families on both sides. Guerillas and opportunists attacked wherever they sensed easy rewards. Thus, men from both sides formed the Boonville Home Guard (same name as in 1861 but with . . . — — Map (db m247308) HM
On North Grand Avenue at West Spruce Street, on the right when traveling south on North Grand Avenue.
[east side] James H. McBride was born in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in 1814 of Scotch-Irish descent. He studied Law and was admitted to the Bar in Paris, Missouri. He married Mildred A. Barnes of Cooper County and settled in . . . — — Map (db m296715) HM
On Boonslick Drive south of Main Street ( Route B), on the right when traveling north.
By October 1864, the horrors of the Civil War had reached most Boonville families. It was then that Boonville citizens learned that a large force of Confederates was approaching from the southeast. These were the men of Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's . . . — — Map (db m247313) HM
On Union Road 0.1 miles east of Newell Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Edgar Smith Walker was born June 3, 1858, in Cooper County, Missouri. He was educated in country schools and lived on a farm until the age of 18. While attending the University of Missouri, he accepted an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at . . . — — Map (db m128915) HM
On Morgan Street near Main Street (U.S. 40), on the left when traveling east.
Hannah Cole was one of the earliest settlers of the present site of Boonville. She was born in Virginia about 1762. In 1789 she married William Temple Cole. They moved to Kentucky about 1805 and then to what would soon become Missouri Territory in . . . — — Map (db m45905) HM
On Pershing Drive at Warlow Street, on the left when traveling north on Pershing Drive.
Dr. Nathaniel Harris built the house now known as the Pershing Boyhood Home in 1858. It is approximately 3,800 square feet and is of Rural Gothic gingerbread, Victorian-era styling. The foundation is native limestone and the exterior walls are . . . — — Map (db m292695) HM
On Missouri Route 87 west of U.S. 40, on the right when traveling north.
Franklin, founded across the river from Boonville, 1816, was once the metropolis of the Boon's Lick Country, a central Missouri region, taking its name from a salt lick in the area worked by the sons of Daniel Boone. Here was the first land office . . . — — Map (db m247706) HM
On Mudrow Street (Missouri Route 15) at Hisey Street, on the right when traveling south on Mudrow Street.
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Internationally known for its firebrick industry and famed for its saddle horses, this county seat was laid out by Robert C. Mansfield and James H. Smith not long before Audrain County was organized, 1836. Named for legislator . . . — — Map (db m70508) HM
The Katy Trail leaves the Missouri River at Boonville and heads southwest into Cooper County for 11.5 miles to Pilot Grove. The 1912 Spanish Mission-style Boonville depot stands near the trail head. The depot now serves as home to the Boonville . . . — — Map (db m247349) HM
On Missouri Route 87, on the right when traveling south.
Historic Boonville's first settlers were pioneer Mother Hannah Allison Cole and her 9 children who located on the Missouri River bluffs where St. Joseph Hospital now stands, 1810. Hannah, whose husband William T. Cole was killed by Indians, ran . . . — — Map (db m46067) HM
On Main Street (Missouri Route 87) east of High Street, on the left when traveling east.
The domed octagonal cupola, domed semicircular portico supported by curved brick columns of Corinthian order, 24-paned windows and fanlighted front door lend architectural interest to this classic revival-styled building completed in 1868. What . . . — — Map (db m62427) HM
On South Street east of Nelson Street, on the left when traveling east.
The plaque pictured at left has been placed in Sunset Hills Cemetery in remembrance of eight Union cavalry soldiers who died in action and are buried here.
In central Missouri in the summer of 1864, bands of Southern partisan cavalry roamed the . . . — — Map (db m252367) HM
On East Water Street east of 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.
Third Battle: October 11, 1863
The Third Battle of Boonville was fought from this wharf. Confederate General Joseph O. Shelby and his men approached Boonville from the south where they had burned a railroad bridge near Otterville. Local . . . — — Map (db m247262) HM
1790
Indians Along the Missouri
The Missouri River served as a boundary between Indian tribes in historic times. The Osage dominated a vast area south of the river. To the north, the loway, and later Sauk and Fox, held power. . . . — — Map (db m247363) HM
Near Katy Trail west of County Highway BB, on the right when traveling west.
1830…
Mill on the Lamine River
Although Clifton City is a railroad town, the Lamine River is the original reason for the town's location. George Cranmer of Paris, Ky., settled on the Lamine in 1832, at what later became the Missouri, . . . — — Map (db m272505) HM
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James Mackay
James Mackay emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1776. He moved to the Louisiana Territory and took an oath of loyalty to Spain. He became employed by the Missouri Trading Co. of St. Louis . . . — — Map (db m248240) HM
On Roe Street at College Street ( Route 135), on the right when traveling west on Roe Street.
This is the original millstone from the Harriman Mill begun by Dr. William P. Harriman south of Pilot Grove at Mt. Vernon in the late 1860's. It was constructed by Anthony Johnston, a millwright and stone mason from Kentucky who built several other . . . — — Map (db m247104) HM
On St. Louis Street (State Highway 146) at De Witt Street, on the right when traveling west on St. Louis Street.
Sarah Ann Ponton, the youngest child of William Ponton and Isabella (Mooreland) Ponton, was born September 16, 1820 in Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. She migrated to Texas with her parents in 1829. After her father's massacre by Indians in . . . — — Map (db m158403) HM
On 2nd Street at Roe Street, on the right when traveling east on 2nd Street.
1820
The Pilot Grove
A grove of trees visible on the rolling prairie for miles around gave the town its name. The grove "piloted" travelers southwest along the divide between the Lamine River and Petite Saline Creek. Later, this route . . . — — Map (db m247226) HM
On Farm Field Road 2 miles east of Dempsey Road, on the right when traveling east.
Within this fence lie the graves of five or six pioneers who lost their lives while traveling to the gold fields of California and the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon.
Alfred Corum and his brothers John, Herod, and Simeon left Cooper County, . . . — — Map (db m179620) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
