This smokehouse
was originally built on
the Treisch farmstead
by Ernst A. Treisch
and family, who were
German immigrants
from Saxony.
(Common day Germany). — — Map (db m286849) HM
Rolling Along the Katy Trail
Where you now stand, shiny black steam locomotives and brightly painted diesel trains once rolled. From 1870 to 1988, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) Railroad carried passengers and freight along this route, . . . — — Map (db m259757) HM
The Hamburg Trail is an eight-mile hiking and biking trail which links the Katy Trail to the August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area Headquarters. The trail was created as part of a cooperative effort between the Missouri Department of . . . — — Map (db m260491) HM
This section of the Busch Greenway travels through the Missouri Research Park and connects the Katy Trail on the east to the Hamburg Trail in the Weldon Spring Conservation Area on the west.
This 700-acre high-tech and research corridor is part . . . — — Map (db m259747) HM
Prairies
Prairies once covered much of North America from the Rocky Mountains to Indiana, with scattered prairies extending to the eastern seaboard. Tallgrass prairies once dominated much of Missouri. These unique and valuable . . . — — Map (db m259723) HM
The prairies surrounding this area are managed and controlled by the Missouri Department of Conservation. These restored prairies depend on periodic prescribed or managed burns for survival and renewal of the grassland.
Periodic burning of a . . . — — Map (db m260489) HM
This monument is dedicated to the several hundred families whose exodus from Howell, Hamburg, and Toonerville-y communities took place prior to the declaration of World War II., Dec 7, 1941. The Government purchased approximately eighteen thousand . . . — — Map (db m182626) HM
Weldon Spring Conservation Area History
In the 1790s, North Carolina frontiersman John Weldon settled in the area with a 425-acre Spanish land grant. Weldon built a log home on high ground overlooking a spring, for which the town . . . — — Map (db m260478) HM
Weldon Spring Ordnance Works (WSOW)
The 17,232-acre World War II Ordnance Works began with groundbreaking on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1940. WSOW was said to be one of the largest plants of its kind in the world, having a production . . . — — Map (db m133241) HM
Many Missourians may not be aware of the history of Weldon Spring. It was the country's largest explosives plant during World War II and a uranium-processing facility for Cold War nuclear weapons. There are also long-term efforts to clean up the . . . — — Map (db m169488) HM
The distance from Weldon Spring to Greens Bottom is 10.30 miles. From the trailhead, Katy Trail State Park runs through the 8,000-acre Weldon Spring Conservation area for five miles until milepost 51.2. Besides providing a scenic background . . . — — Map (db m169486) HM
From Weldon Spring to Matson is 4.60 miles, one of the shortest distances between trailheads in Katy Trail State Park. At milepost 56.7, less than a mile from the Weldon Spring trailhead is a junction with the Hamburg Trail, a converted haul . . . — — Map (db m169484) HM
As you meander through Missouri Research Park, you can see a large white globe peeking over the treetops. Inside the globe is weather radar operated by the St. Louis office of the National Weather Service. Officially known as WSR-88D, it is part of . . . — — Map (db m260483) HM
