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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZV_boonville_Boonville-MO.html
Side A:Historic Boonville's first settlers were pioneer Mother Hannah Allison Cole and her 9 children who located on the Missouri River bluffs where St. Joseph Hospital now stands, 1810. Hannah, whose husband William T. Cole was killed by Indians,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZO_battle-of-boonville_Boonville-MO.html
On June 17, 1861, the Battle of Boonville took place at this and other locations along this road. By most standards of warfare, the Battle of Boonville was more truly a skirmish or demonstration than a full blown battle. But small conflicts can so…
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On the morning of June 17, 1861, one of the first engagements of the War Between the States occurred between State and Federal troops here in the hills below Boonville. The engagement began at 8 A.M. and ended near this spot with the surrender of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZH_hannah-coles-fort_Boonville-MO.html
In 1810 Hannah Cole and her nine children crossed the Missouri River and built a cabin on the site of Boonville, thus becomig the first white settlers south of the river.
After repeated Indian trouble in 1814 it was deemed necessary to build a …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZE_thespian-hall_Boonville-MO.html
Thespian Hall, believed to be one of the oldest surviving theaters west of the Allegheny Mountains, brought culture to the frontier town of Boonville. In 1838 sixty leading citizens founded an all-male dramatic group called the Thespian Society. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUZD_capture-of-union-troops_Boonville-MO.html
This marks defence workswhere three companies ofUnion soldiers were takenprisoner when Confederatescaptured BoonvilleOct. 16, 1864
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYK_david-barton_Boonville-MO.html
David Barton was born December 14, 1783, near Greeneville, North Carolina (now Tennessee). He came to the then-Louisiana Territory in 1809. Though Barton had some legal training, his first job was teaching in St. Charles. When the Missouri Territo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUYH_james-milton-turner_Boonville-MO.html
Born in slavery in St. Louis County, Mo.Freed 1843Founder, Elias Buckner African-American School in Boonville 1869Established 32 Missouri schools for African-Americans in 1870Secured state funding for Lincoln Institute (later Lincoln University)Se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUY2_walter-williams_Boonville-MO.html
Born July 2, 1864, Boonville, MissouriDied July 29, 1935, Columbia, Missouri
Editor - The Advertiser - Boonville, Missouri - 1884-1889Editor - The Herald - Columbia Missouri - 1889-1908Founder and Dean of First School of Journalism in the World…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUXF_george-caleb-bingham_Boonville-MO.html
One of America's greatest painters, George Caleb Bingham, was known during his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist" for his depictions of frontier life and portraits.
Bingham was born in Augusta County, Virginia, March 20, 1811, and in 1819 the fa…