Dedicated to All Veterans
Past Present & Future
WWI WWII Vietnam
Harold Dean Waller Vietnam
James Paul Barton Vietnam
John Wesley Dial World War II
Aubrey Embrey World War II
Glenn Alley World War II
Charles H. . . . — — Map (db m44105) WM
The Osage Indians thought so much of the French Explorer, Pierre Chouteau, as a fur trader, that on March 19, 1792 they gave him land along the Lamine River including what is now Blackwater township, Pilot Grove township and of course, the once . . . — — Map (db m44103) HM
On June 17, 1861, the Battle of Boonville took place at this and other locations along this road. By most standards of warfare, the Battle of Boonville was more truly a skirmish or demonstration than a full blown battle. But small conflicts can . . . — — Map (db m46060) HM
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
This marks defence works where three companies of Union soldiers were taken prisoner when Confederates captured Boonville, Oct. 16, 1864. — — Map (db m46048) HM WM
In memory of those from
Cooper County who served and died
in Korea and Vietnam
Korea
George W. Shelby
Kelly C. Odneal
Vietnam
Robert E. Jenry
Millard F. Meadows
Robert W. Moore — — Map (db m45864) WM
They died that Freedom might
not perish from the Earth
1917-1919
Stanley Ira Bell Oscar H. Bishop
Merritt H. Boswell Mack L. Blackstone
William O. Diel John Edwards
Sidney E. Emery Harry English
Lon S. Fairfax Richard Wm. . . . — — Map (db m45863) WM
David Barton was born December 14, 1783, near Greeneville, North Carolina (now Tennessee). He came to the then-Louisiana Territory in 1809. Though Barton had some legal training, his first job was teaching in St. Charles. When the Missouri . . . — — Map (db m46019) HM
Frederick Thomas Kemper, pioneering Missouri educator and founder of Kemper Military School in Boonville, was born at Madison Courthouse, Virginia. After graduating from Marion College in Palmyra, Missouri, he came to Boonville in 1844 and opened . . . — — Map (db m45974) HM
One of America's greatest painters, George Caleb Bingham, was known during his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist" for his depictions of frontier life and portraits.
Bingham was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 20, 1811, and in 1819 the . . . — — Map (db m45975) HM
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
In 1810 Hannah Cole and her nine children crossed the Missouri River and built a cabin on the site of Boonville, thus becomig the first white settlers south of the river.
After repeated Indian trouble in 1814 it was deemed necessary to build a . . . — — Map (db m46052) HM
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
Born in slavery in St. Louis County, Mo.
Freed 1843
Founder, Elias Buckner African-American School in Boonville 1869 Established 32 Missouri schools for African-Americans in 1870
Secured state funding for Lincoln Institute (later Lincoln . . . — — Map (db m46016) HM
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this copy of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
and loyalty . . . — — Map (db m45866) HM
On the morning of June 17, 1861, one of the first engagements of the War Between the States occurred between State and Federal troops here in the hills below Boonville. The engagement began at 8 A.M. and ended near this spot with the surrender of . . . — — Map (db m46055) HM
Thespian Hall, believed to be one of the oldest surviving theaters west of the Allegheny Mountains, brought culture to the frontier town of Boonville. In 1838 sixty leading citizens founded an all-male dramatic group called the Thespian Society. . . . — — Map (db m46049) HM
Born July 2, 1864, Boonville, Missouri
Died July 29, 1935, Columbia, Missouri
Editor - The Advertiser - Boonville, Missouri - 1884-1889
Editor - The Herald - Columbia Missouri - 1889-1908
Founder and Dean of First
School of Journalism . . . — — Map (db m45999) HM
