Roddis Line – Early Logging

Iron County Heritage Area

America saw the vast forests of the Great lakes as an endless supply of the timber needed to settle the west. Farmers, factories and mills needed wood for fuel and building materials.

Men came to the northern forests ...

Roddis Line - Roddis Lumber and Veneer Company

Iron County Heritage Area

William Henry Roddis realized that a fortune could be made in the woods.

In 1903, he purchased a parcel of land to build a mill in Park Falls. Roddis bought 35,000 acres of timber land in Iron and ...

Roddis Line – Turtle-Flambeau Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

In 1925, the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company began construction on a dam to create a water reservoir for hydroelectric power, where the Turtle, Manitowish, and Flambeau rivers join.

The Roddis company owned land in the area, which ...

Flambeau Trail – Turtle Flambeau Flowage Dam

Iron County Heritage Area

The Turtle Flambeau Flowage was born in 1926, when the Chippewa and Flambeau Improvement Company built a dam on the Flambeau River, downstream from its confluence with the Turtle River improving its usefulness for power-generating and papermaking ...

Memorial Union Tower

In grateful memory

of these

Heroic Sons of Missouri

who in the Great War

- 1917 - 1918 -

paid the full measure

of devotion

[Roll of Honored Dead]

Tipping of the Hats

When the Memorial Union Tower was completed in 1926, the names of MU's honored 117 men ...

The Mammoth Consolidated Gold Mine

Mammoth’s famous gold mining boom began in 1877 and ended abruptly in 1881 when the Mammoth Mining Company’s property was sold at a sheriff’s sale. Miners have contributed to prospect and mine Red Mountain on a small scale to this ...

Fort Kanarra

Old Kanarra, as it was called by early inhabitants, was founded in the spring of 1861 by settlers who moved from Fort Harmony. The town was situated on Kanarra Creek about one mile north and east of the present location. ...

Fort Harmony

Established May 9, 1854, by John D. Lee, Richard Woolsey, William R. Davis and others who had founded Harmony in 1852. County seat of Washington County until 1859. Headquarters of Mormon Mission to Lamanites 1853-1854.

The fort was finally abandoned in ...

Site of Columbia College

On this site stood Columbia College an institution of higher learning for men. First proposed in 1831, chartered by General Assembly in 1833, began its work in 1834. First session of University of Missouri held here in 1841. This college ...

James Shannon L.L.D.

In memory of

James Shannon L.L.D.

Born in Monaghan Co. Ireland

April 23, 1799

Died

Feb. 23, 1859

Second President, University of Missouri,

Columbia, Mo. 1850-1856

Co-Founder of Christian College 1851

(Now Columbia College), Columbia, Mo.

Co-Founder of Christian University 1853, and

First President (Now Culver-Stockton College)

Canton, Mo.

The Christian Philanthropist and ...