Pathway to a Political Future
Born near Greenville, South Carolina, January 26, 1790, Daniel Dunklin moved first to Kentucky and then to Missouri, settling with his widowed mother at Mine-a-Breton, near Potosi, in 1810. Dunklin studied law . . . — — Map (db m248681) HM
In 1798 John Clark, pioneer Methodist minister preaching from a boat, gave the first Protestant sermon west of the Mississippi River at the mouth of Joachim Creek near present Herculaneum — — Map (db m248684) HM
The first shot tower west of Pittsburgh was erected in 1809 at the top of this cliff. Shot made by dropping molten lead from it and bullets molded from lead smelted nearby were used by the American troops during the War of 1812. Notably at . . . — — Map (db m248683) HM
