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The Floating Freedom School was an educational facility for free and enslaved African Americans on a steamboat on ... To circumvent the new state law in Missouri ...
Shoal Creek is an 81.5-mile-long (131.2 km) [3] stream tributary of the Spring River in southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas.It begins in Barry County, Missouri southwest of Exeter and flows west through Newton county in Missouri before emptying into the Spring River near Riverton in Cherokee County, Kansas.
John Berry Meachum (May 3, 1789 – February 26, 1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of the First African Baptist Church in St. Louis, the oldest black church west of the Mississippi River.
Sinking Creek is a stream in Dent, Reynolds and Shannon counties in the Ozarks of southeast Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Current River . The stream headwaters are at 37°31′04″N 91°18′38″W / 37.51778°N 91.31056°W / 37.51778; -91.31056 and the confluence with the Current is at 37°18′09″N 91°24′55″W ...
Lake of the Ozarks State Park is home to Party Cove, a gathering spot that a The New York Times writer called the "oldest established permanent floating bacchanal in the country." [35] The Missouri State Water Patrol has estimated that the cove attracts up to 3,000 boats during the Fourth of July weekend. [35]
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Goldenrod was a floating theater, known as a showboat, which operated on the Mississippi River and its tributaries throughout the 20th Century. She was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark on 24 December 1967 and a St. Louis, Missouri City Landmark in 1972. [3] The boat was placed on the 'Threatened Historical Landmarks' list in 2001.
The Gasconade River is about 280 miles (450 km) long [1] and is located in central and south-central Missouri. [2] [3]The Gasconade River begins in the Ozarks southwest of Hartville in Wright County and flows generally north-northeastwardly through Wright, Laclede, Pulaski, Phelps, Maries, Osage and Gasconade counties, through portions of the Mark Twain National Forest.