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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2X_pony-express-stable_Saint-Joseph-MO.html
1,996 miles in 10 days. A daring horseback relay mail service connects the nation. The Vision of the Pony Express In January 1860. William H. Russell, Alexander Majors, and William B. Waddell, right, (partners in the freighting firm of Russell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2B2W_the-one-room-schoolhouse_Saint-Joseph-MO.html
For nearly 250 years the country school was the backbone of American education. These simple buildings often served as school, chapel, town hall and community center. One-room schoolhouses were the most common type of schools in the Midwest from …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMB_joseph-robidoux-at-roys-branch_Saint-Joseph-MO.html
Joseph Robidoux, founder of St. Joseph, was the leader of a French-Canadian fur trading family which sent men out to trade with the Indians along the Missouri River and as far west as today's Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. From his first trip …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OCD_the-lewis-and-clark-expedition_Saint-Joseph-MO.html
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery" to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisia…
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