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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV8F_katy-trail-state-park-20th-anniversary_Rocheport-MO.html
From its inception and throughout its 20-year history, Katy Trail State Park has been one of the most successful rails-to-trail conversions projects in the United States. As the longest developed rail-trail in the United States, it has been induct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV7W_edward-d-ted-and-pat-jones_Rocheport-MO.html
Katy Trail State Park is one of Missouri's premier attractions, drawing about 400,000 visitors from across the United States and other countries. Stretching 225 miles from St. Charles in the east to Clinton in the west, the trail is the longest de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV73_steamboating-on-the-missouri_Rocheport-MO.html
First SteamboatsEarly steamboat trips on the Missouri River tested boats, crews and passengers. Between 1820 and 1900, several hundred steamboats on the Missouri were destroyed by fire or boiler explosions, crushed by ice, or sunk by snags. The fi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV6W_history-of-rocheport_Rocheport-MO.html
1804...Land Before the TownPrior to its settlement, American Indians used the area we now call Rocheport. The closeness to the river, fertile soils, both salt and freshwater springs, and the protection given by the huge bluffs, rock overhangs and …