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Garrison Creek is a stream in Lafayette County in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] Garrison Creek is named after the local Garrison family. [2] ... Mobile view ...
Rockwoods Reservation is a 1,843 acres (746 ha) state forest and wildlife conservation area in St. Louis County, Missouri. It was established in 1938, making it one of the oldest Missouri Department of Conservation areas. Being located close to a major urban area and in a rapidly developing suburban area increases its significance as a nature ...
The Steelville Normal Business Institute was originally at Vichy. It was moved to Steelville with the help of John T. Woodruff of Springfield and Professor Hayes and opened during the latter part of 1890. The first newspaper in Steelville, Steelville Crawford Missouri, was established on May 4, 1874, by Thomas Roberts. The paper was printed in ...
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a public recreation area covering 9,432 acres (3,817 ha) on the East Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri.The state park is jointly administered with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two parks cover more than sixteen thousand acres in the St. Francois Mountains region of the Missouri Ozarks.
The section of Sullivan which is located in Crawford County is included in the St. Louis, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 1990, the mean center of U.S. population was located in southwestern Crawford County. Crawford County was established in 1829 and the County Seat of Steelville was laid out in 1836. [4]
Castlewood State Park is a public recreation area and Missouri state park occupying 1,818 acres (736 ha) which straddles the Meramec River in St. Louis County, Missouri.The most visited section of the state park lies on the north side of the Meramec; the park acreage on the south side of the river is accessed from Lone Elk County Park and includes the World Bird Sanctuary.
Route 8 begins its run in St. James concurrent with Route 68 just south of the interchange with I-44. The two routes are concurrent for approximately 4 miles before Route 68 splits from Route 8 and heads southeast to Salem while Route 8 runs east to Steelville, passing Maramec Spring Park in the process.
Huzzah Creek (locally / ˈ h uː z ɑː /) is a 35.8-mile-long (57.6 km) [3] clear-flowing stream in the southern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. [4] According to the information in the Ramsay Place Names File at the University of Missouri, the creek's name "is evidently derived from" Huzzaus, one of the early French versions of the name of the Osage people.