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A visitor center museum features exhibits about Arrow Rock and the Boone's Lick country. The Bingham Home, built by artist George Caleb Bingham, is a historic house museum furnished as in the 1880s. The 1834 Huston Tavern is a restaurant. A walking tour of the site includes the old courthouse, town doctor's home, stone jail, and other historic ...
The land which was originally wetlands used by migratory foul had earlier been used as a private hunting preserve. [3]In 1906 the Squaw Creek Drainage District No. 1 after much litigation using the contactors Rogers & Rogers completed ditches to drain nearly 20,000 acres (8,100 ha) of land into the Missouri River in a massive project in which more than 500,000 cubic yards of earth were moved ...
Museum of Missouri Military History: Jefferson City: Cole: Central: Military [41] [42] Museum of the Dog: Town and Country: St. Louis: Northeast: Art: website, collection of art devoted to the dog, operated by the American Kennel Club: Museum at the German School: Hermann: Gasconade: Northeast: Local history: website, operated by Historic ...
The Hiawatha Sportsman's Club's Manitou Lodge is sited on a bluff overlooking Naubinway and Lake Michigan. [2] The lodge is "an excellent example" of log construction. [2] It is still in original condition, and consists of a lobby and sleeping rooms. The main section is a gable-end structure with a low pitched roof, and contains the lobby.
Location of Butler County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Butler County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Butler County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
It is part of the collection of the National Museum of Natural History, but it is on long-term loan to the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois where it is on display. [35] The Upper Bluff Lake plates are two plates found at the Saddle Site (11U284) in Union County, Illinois in the 1880s, in the same stone box grave. One of ...
Mark Twain School, also known as the Poplar Bluff Museum, is a historic school building located at Poplar Bluff, Butler County, Missouri. It was built in 1910, and is a two-story, "H"-plan, Classical Revival style brick building. The building consists of two, parallel, rectangular-plan, hipped roof blocks joined by an enclosed two-story flat ...
In the late 1880s it was jeopardized by erosion of the bluff and plans were made to replace it. [3] In 1888 a 40-foot cast-iron lighthouse tower was built 100 feet in from the edge of the bluff, and the Queen Anne-style light keeper's quarters was built. The original 1855 lantern room was used on the new 1888 tower.