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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4E_the-mississippi-river_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
"The Father of Water" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, packets, and towboats.
Until the Civil War, Cape Gi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4D_old-st-vincents-church_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
On this site in 1833, Father John Timon, a Vincention Priest, celebrated mass in a warehouse of Don Louis Lorimier.
The first St. Vincent's Church, constructed in 1838, was destroyed by a tornado in 1850. Re-built a year later, the foundation o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYYU_george-drouillard_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
George Drouillard was cheif hunter and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition Corps of Discovery. He was the son of a Frenchman and Shawnee woman as well as nephew of Louis Lorimier, Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Drouillard liv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQD_telephone-service_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
1877 1896Telephone ServiceIn 1877The first long distance telephone line in Missouri was completed December 18, 1877 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson.
In 1896Here in a 10' by 12' second floor room the city's first telephone exchange was estab…