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[2] [3] The NHLs are distributed across fifteen of Missouri's 114 counties and one independent city, with a concentration of fifteen landmarks in the state's only independent city, St. Louis. The National Park Service (NPS), a branch of the U.S. Department of the Interior, administers the National Historic Landmark program. The NPS is ...
Elephant Rocks State Park is a geologic reserve and public recreation area encompassing an outcropping of Precambrian granite in the Saint Francois Mountains in the U.S. state of Missouri. The state park is named for a string of large granite boulders which resemble a train of pink circus elephants . [ 4 ]
Missouri Mines State Historic Site: St. Francois: 25 acres 10 ha: 1976 Missouri State Capitol: Cole: 3 acres 1.2 ha: 1826 Missouri State Museum: Cole: n/a: n/a: 1923 Osage Village State Historic Site: Vernon: 100 acres 40 ha: 1984 Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site: Jefferson: 205.78 acres 83.28 ha: 1968 Sappington Cemetery State ...
This list of museums in Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Ste. Genevieve was established in the 1750s by French colonists, when the territory west of the Mississippi River was part of French Louisiana.It became the principle civic center of the region, and continued to be so when the area passed into Spanish control with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Collecting unusual items is a hobby that can range from quirky and endearing to bizarre and straight-up gross. Here are 12 weird and wacky things that people collect.
Ozark Caverns is an unlit cave located within the south side of Lake of the Ozarks State Park. It is part of a large group of "wild" caves in Missouri. Ozark Caverns is one of three "tamed" caves that is accessible to tourists (the other two being Bridal Cave and Jacob's Cave). It is part of the Osage River Cave region.