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 ...

Cemetery Hill

Fighting Among the Tombstones

During the Civil War, Moorefield could be seen in front of you from this then-treeless hill. Beyond the town is the confluence of two watercourses that form the South Branch River, which flows north through a fertile ...

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 ...

Fountain Rock

"Crows..,will have to carry their provender with them"

(Preface): The Federal offensive in the Shenandoah Valley begun in May 1864 faltered in the summer with Confederate victories and Gen. Jubal A. Early's Washington Raid in July. Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan ...

River Commerce

Known to Native Americans as "Messipi" ("Big River") or "Mee-zee-see-bee" ("Father of Waters"), the Mississippi River originates in Minnesota and terminates 2,348 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico.

The river played an integral part in the establishment and growth of ...

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 ? ...

Cape Girardeau River Crossings

In the 1790s, the Spanish governor granted Louis Lorimier permission to operate a ferry service at Cape Girardeau.

Thereafter, ferry operators continued to shuttle people and products across the Mississippi River until 1928 when a new, privately built bridge ended the ...

Pioneer Burial Ground

Established in 1793 by

Col. Charles Williamson

For his little daughter

who died of Genesee Fever

Village of Bath

Marker is on West Steuben Street just west of Exchange Street, on the right.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Champion Beech Tree

This stately Beech is one of the largest and oldest trees in the State of Missouri. A registered "champion" tree, it is approximately 200 years old. Quite possibly it was alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

The ...

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 ...