Historical Markers and War Memorials in O''Fallon, Missouri
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O'Fallon is in St. Charles County
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On Veterans Memorial Parkway at Molloy Drive, on the right when traveling east on Veterans Memorial Parkway.
This aircraft was in combat from 1969 Sept 1972 when it was shot down in Vietnam. This aircraft id dedicated in memory of all helicopter pilots and crew members who fought in all conflicts through the years. — — Map (db m182632) HM WM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.7 miles south of State Highway P, on the left when traveling south.
Mound building dominated cultures that existed in the Midwest 2,000 years ago. Earthworks found in the East, South and Midwest are so magnificent that some 18th and 19th Century European-Americans argued that the Native Americans couldn't have . . . — — Map (db m169550) HM
On Dames Park Drive at State Highway P, on the right when traveling north on Dames Park Drive.
"Bold, courageous, genial and inventive, James H. Audrain was a man in his times almost larger than life. No frontier constrained him. He was in step with many of the men we know from the history books and countless others." . . . — — Map (db m169536) HM
On Jessup Drive West just south of Veterans Memorial Parkway, on the right when traveling south.
300 yards south — built 1798 on Spanish grant. Homestead of Major Nathan Heald, Commander Fort Dearborn, War of 1812, and his wife Rebecca Wells from 1817 to 1853. — — Map (db m169554) HM
On Jessup Drive West, 0.8 miles south of Veterans Memorial Parkway, on the left when traveling south.
• Log Cabin is the only War of 1812 site that is located in a public park.
• Jacob Zumwalt lived here for nineteen years and raised ten children from two wives. He moved to Pike County Mo, with one of his sons in 1817 and passed away in . . . — — Map (db m169555) HM
On Jessup Drive West just south of Fort Drive, on the left when traveling north.
When the City of O'Fallon purchased Fort Zumwalt Park for $1 from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources in 1978, it acquired about 48 acres, the ruins of a War of 1812 settler fort and a brick house built circa 1884-86. What took . . . — — Map (db m169558) HM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.7 miles west of State Highway P, on the left when traveling west.
Between 150 B.C. to 300 A.D, the streets of the city market would have been lined with merchants offering items such as ornate serving bowls and cooking vessels for your home, the latest style in hunting gear, new tools like granite celts (axe . . . — — Map (db m169549) HM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.8 miles south of State Highway P, on the left when traveling west.
If you could step into a time machine in this park and travel back 2,000 years you would find a large village that extended north across Highway P. You would also find an open-air market off Highway 79 where O'Fallon's sewage treatment plant is . . . — — Map (db m169540) HM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.4 miles south of State Highway P, on the left when traveling west.
This memorial dedicated to those who gave their lives that we may live in peace
Swafford Robert PFC USMC •
Shortt Walter CPL USMC •
Smith Robert PFC Army •
Ross Dale AME2 Navy •
Hood William PFC Army •
O'Neal LeRoy SSGT Army • . . . — — Map (db m169552) WM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.8 miles south of State Highway P, on the left when traveling west.
Trade brought great wealth to this region. Several large communities with markets, including one off Highway 79 near the present-day O'Fallon sewage treatment plant, could be found across the greater O'Fallon area. Just as they do now, local . . . — — Map (db m169541) HM
On Dames Park Drive, 0.8 miles south of State Highway P, on the left when traveling east.
When popular leaders died they were honored by burials in earthen mounds like the one within Dames Park. The mounds were similar in concept to the pyramids of Egypt, but constructed of soil rather than stone. People weren't forced to build these . . . — — Map (db m169551) HM
On Jessup Drive West, 0.4 miles south of Veterans Memorial Parkway, on the left when traveling north.
Fort Zumwalt Park sits on land that was granted to Jacob Zumwalt and his family by the Spanish government in the late 1700s. The land was suitable for settling, in part, because it had a fresh spring and creek, now known as Belleau Creek, running . . . — — Map (db m169576) HM
