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Missouri State Veterans Cemetery - Bloomfield
Tucked into the southeastern bootheel of Missouri, the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield has been uniquely intertwined with a broader history of the American military’s own self-perception and image since it opened in September of 2003.…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery - Jacksonville
The autumn of 2003 saw the Missouri Veterans Commission expand into northeastern Missouri with the establishment of the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville, a small town on the border of Randolph county. While the rural location and…
Kansas Veterans Cemetery at Fort Riley
In the late 1990s, the state of Kansas began to face a real problem - how to accommodate the increased need for veterans cemeteries in the region. Just as Missouri was doing at the same time with its Missouri Veteran’s Committee, the Kansas…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery – Springfield
Standing alongside the nearby Springfield National Cemetery, the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Springfield offers a resting place for veterans of the modern era. The first cemetery built under the Missouri Veterans Commission program, the…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery – Fort Leonard Wood
As decades pass and time marches on, the need for newer cemeteries to honor veterans has grown. For the Missouri Veterans Commission, that need came to a head in 1996, when, after persistent lobbying, the State Veterans Cemetery Program was signed…
Fort Riley Post Cemetery
Fort Riley Post Cemetery, like many military cemeteries before it, began with the fort that gives it its name. The site began in 1853, with the establishment of the fort in the plains of Kansas as a hub to protect the heavily trafficked westward…
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Marble Hill: Bollinger Mill
We begin our tour of Marble Hill with the location that arguably brought the town to life. The Bollinger Mill sits just on the outskirts of the city and is older than Marble Hill itself, having stood for over 200 years. George F. Bollinger began…
Kansas City Missouri 18th and Vine District
Before the Civil War in 1860, the population of Kansas City was 4,418, which included 190 enslaved residents. Once freed, blacks were forced into segregated areas in the city. Between 1860 and 1870 many former slaves came to the city looking for…
Chillicothe Missouri Baking Company Bakery
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Iowa (1880-1960), also known as the “Father of Sliced Bread”, was an American inventor, engineer, and businessman who developed the first commercial automatic bread-slicing machine. His father, Claus Rohwedder was born on…
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A project by University of Central Missouri History ProgramHistoric Missouri is a free mobile app that provides users easy access to information about the important places, people, and stories that are unique to Missouri. Developed by the faculty and students in the History Program at the University of Central Missouri, the mobile application provides interpretive and curated narrative tours about Missouri’s history. Each point on the map includes historical information about that site and features historic images from Missouri’s archival institutions like the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri State Archives.
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