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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 ...
Steelville is a city in Crawford County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,472 at the 2020 census. The population was 1,472 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Crawford County. [ 5 ]
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]
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 ...
Current River State Park is a public recreation area occupying 839 acres (340 ha) along the Current River north of Eminence in Newton Township, Shannon County, Missouri.The state park consists of land and buildings originally developed as the Alton Club, a corporate retreat used in the 1930s and 1940s by the Alton Box Board Company of Alton, Illinois. [4]
The construction of dams such as the Oahe, Garrison, and Fort Randall flooded out significant parts of many Native American reservations, including those at Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Fort Berthold, Crow Creek, and Lower Brule. One source called the program the single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States.
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.
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.