On East River Drive (U.S. 67) south of Federal Street, on the right when traveling west.
[Left] This boulder marks the site of the western abutment of the first bridge across the Mississippi River, built in 1858 - 1886
[Center] This replica of a pier from first railroad bridge across Mississippi River is located near . . . — — Map (db m230213) HM
On Mississippi Route 21 north of West Street, on the right when traveling north. Reported damaged.
The most renowned Mississippi string band of the 1920s, the four Revelers—fiddler Will Gilmer, mandolinist R. O. Mosley, banjoist Jim Wolverton and guitarist Dallas Jones—were based here in Sebastapol, and played live across the Southeast. They had . . . — — Map (db m191750) HM
On South Winchester Street (U.S. 61) north of Tywappity Street, on the right when traveling south.
The second county formed in Missouri's famed Southeast Lowland Region, Scott was organized 1821, and named for John Scott, the State's first Congressman. Southerners were first settlers on Spanish land grants in the late 1790's. The King's Highway . . . — — Map (db m161191) HM
On Main Street south of Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
When established in 1789, New Madrid was one of a handful of settlements in the Spanish territory west of the Mississippi River. First as a district and later as a county, the New Madrid jurisdiction extended as far south to the northern border of . . . — — Map (db m179976) HM
On North Spanish Street at Themis Street, on the left when traveling north on North Spanish Street.
Southeast Missouri was where Ulysses S. Grant, the nation's eighteenth president, began his rise to prominence as a soldier. This story began in mid-August, 1861, at Ironton, Missouri, 70 miles west of Cape Girardeau via Missouri Highway 72. Grant . . . — — Map (db m261479) HM
On Shelby Farms Greenline 0.6 miles north of Macon Road, on the right when traveling north.
Dr. Greene Fort Pinkston, who practiced medicine for more than 58 years in the Cordova area, was born in Scott County, Mississippi, in 1875. His parents were Ritton and Fannie Gresham Pinkston. At age 24 he left home to attend Meharry Medical School . . . — — Map (db m118383) HM
On 5th Street at 20th Avenue, on the left when traveling north on 5th Street.
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Elsie Williamson McWilliams (1896-1985), the sister of Jimmie Rodgers's second wife Carrie, wrote or contributed to music and lyrics for thirty-nine of the songs that Rodgers performed or recorded, although she never received . . . — — Map (db m77170) HM
Near Lt Billy Webb Avenue 0.1 miles north of Cook Street.
The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the result of decades of tension between the North and the South. Chief among the issues were expansion of slavery into the western territories, the South's declining political power, states' rights, and the . . . — — Map (db m210072) 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.
