Old Lorimier Cemetery

Cape Girardeau's

Oldest Shrine

Earliest Inscription 1808

In this old cemetery

gift of

Don Louis Lorimier

lie pioneers, founders, builders and defenders of our country.

Marker is on North Fountain Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Red House

Pierre-Louis de Lorimier, French-Canadian fur trader, Indian agent, and founder of Cape Girardeau, built the Red House in the late 1790s west of this location on what is now the parking lot of St. Vincent's Church.

The Red House served as ...

The Red House Interpretive Center

The Red House Interpretive Center, under construction from 2002-2004, is a cooperative effort of the Cape Girardeau Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission and the City of Cape Girardeau. The project was funded in part through grants from the Missouri Department ...

Cape Girardeau and the Railroad

After the golden age of the steamboat, port cities like Cape Girardeau suffered as railroads provided alternate means of transportation.

Responding to the post-Civil War railroad boom, a syndicated of local business leaders formed the Cape Girardeau and State Line Railroad ...

Honor Roll of Iraq and Afghanistan War Deaths from Indiana

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Iraq and Afghanistan War Deaths from Indiana

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Steven Faulkenburg ? Jeffrey Corban ? Jason Profitt ? Christopher Monroe ? James Brown ? Richard Langenbrunner ? Michael Hiester ? Roy Lewsader, Jr. ? Raymond White ? ...

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company

Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company

One of the most unusual WWI Mississippi River transportation stories concerns the Manitowoc [Wisconsin] Shipbuilding Co., the nation's only inland builder of submarines.

In December 1940, the U.S. Navy contracted with the company to construct 10 Gato class submarines.

Subsequently, ...

St Vincent's Seminary and Southeast Missouri State University

Terrace Park is located on the site where Father Odin of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers) established St. Vincent's Male Academy in 1838, which was followed shortly thereafter by St. Vincent's Seminary.

Often affectionately called "The Cape", St. Vincent's ...

President James Buchanan

“The incorruptible statesman whose walk was upon the mountain ranges of the law.”

Life long friend Jermiah S. Black

U.S. Attorney General 1857-1860, U.S. Secretary of State 1860-1861

This park commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th President of the ...

Stony Batter       Birthplace of a President

Imagine stepping back in time to April 23, 1791. Packhorses and wagons were pulling into a bustling trading post owned by Scotch-Irish immigrant James Buchanan. There was probably a spring chill to the air. Perhaps the sun shone brightly overhead, ...

Unity Academy

Near this site in 1823 Reverend Aaron Williams established the Unity Academy. The first public school in what would later become the town of Hickory Grove. Williams conducted this school on a grade and high school level. Teaching Mathematics, Grammar, ...