On Main Street south of Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Sketched in 1871 by A. R. Waud of Harper's Weekly, this drawings is the only known full sketch of the 1854 Courthouse. Built at a cost of $2,750 under the supervision of T. J. 0. Morrison, the wooden frame building was 45 by 60 feet (2,700 sq.ft.) . . . — — Map (db m179444) 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 Main Street near Levee Road, on the left when traveling east.
In February 1862, General John Pope concentrated an army in southeast Missouri for the purpose of capturing New Madrid and Island No. 10. Federal troops cut a channel twelve miles long to bypass Island No. 10. Transports and smaller boats were . . . — — Map (db m213170) HM
On Main Street at Levee Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Brigadier General John Pope faced a tactical dilemma on the Mississippi River. Confederate batteries at Island No. 10 blocked passage through a complex series of river bends. Although Pope held New Madrid, . . . — — Map (db m238834) HM
On Main Street at Levee Road, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
To further protect New Madrid from Union attack, a smaller fort was built on the east side of town at the mouth of St. John's Bayou. This upper fort, named Fort Bankhead (the original location was washed away by the ever-changing Mississippi River) . . . — — Map (db m82002) HM
On Main Street south of Virginia Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Harry S. Truman delivered campaign speeches at the Court
House during his senate campaigns in 1934 and 1940. The
1934 campaign was open in southeast Missouri and New Madrid was one of the early campaign stops. In his 1934 speech Truman developed . . . — — Map (db m178007) HM
On Main Street east of Virginia Street, on the right when traveling east.
Commemorating Harry S. Truman President of the United States 1945-1953 Harry S. Truman spoke from these Courthouse steps in 1934 and 1940 to New Madrid County citizens during his successful US Senate Campaigns. — — Map (db m178282) HM
On Main Street at Mott Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.
Established in 1930 near Higgerson Landing on land purchased from John E. "Eddie" Higgerson. Floated from its piers in 1937. Destroyed by fire in 1940 and replaced with this building. The school closed in 1967. Moved to this site June 10, 1997. . . . — — Map (db m19486) HM
On Levee Road at Main Street, on the left when traveling west on Levee Road.
(Front) First American town in Missouri. Founded in 1789 by George Morgan, Princeton graduate and Indian trader, on the site of Francois and Joseph Le Sieur's trading settlement, L'Anse a laGraise (Fr. Cove of Fat). Flood and caving banks . . . — — Map (db m238835) HM
On Levee Road at Main Street, on the right when traveling east on Levee Road.
At this location, and at other locations up and down stream, the Siege of New Madrid and the Island No. Ten campaigns took place during the months of March and April of 1862. Union victories here ensured Federal control of the middle Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m12342) HM
On Water Street at King's Highway, on the right when traveling north on Water Street.
The Spanish and El Camino Real
The Spanish Government in St. Louis authorized the construction of a military road from St. Louis to New Madrid shortly after New Madrid was established as a fortified settlement by Col. George Morgan in the . . . — — Map (db m178960) HM
Near Blomfield Road, 0.8 miles north of U.S. 61/62, on the right when traveling north.
In February 1862, Union Gen. John Pope, then stationed in central Missouri, was placed in command of the 20,000-man Army of the Mississippi and ordered to advance on Island #10 and New Madrid. On February 28th, Pope and his men left Commerce, MO and . . . — — Map (db m82006) HM
On Levee Road near Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
They Passed This Way
Home to thousands of men, women, and children, the Cherokee Nation once spread across parts of Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. The 1830 Indian Removal Act required that the Cherokee surrender their land . . . — — Map (db m213156) HM
On Levee Road near Church Street when traveling south.
This was a remote stretch of the Mississippi River when steamboats of Cherokee passed by on their way west to Indian Territory on the water route of the Trail of Tears. River traffic in 1838 was limited to the daylight hours because of snags and . . . — — Map (db m178285) HM