Download or read book Buried Jefferson City History written by Nancy Arnold Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woodland-Old City Cemetery in Jefferson City is a testament to the lives of pioneers, business leaders, politicians, former slaves, professors, soldiers and everyday people who have made the Capital City their home during the last 200 years. Buried Jefferson City History will highlight some of the stories from more than 2,700 people interred at Woodland-Old City Cemetery. Cemetery preservationist Nancy Arnold Thompson has devoted seven years to seeing monuments cleaned and reset and unmarked burials restored. Local author Michelle Brooks helps capture the stories behind the graves. The people buried here are among Cole County's first settlers. They built the buildings, formed and ran the government, created the businesses and schools, enforced the laws, piloted the steamboats, and fought the wars. They are the history of Jefferson City." -- back cover.
Download or read book Hidden History of Jefferson City written by Michelle Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quite a bit has happened in Missouri's capital city since Lewis and Clark passed through the area on their famous journey. And some of that history has remained hidden. Being the center of politics in the state and possessing a small-town mindset, the city has a dual identity. Burr McCarty turned his humble home and stagecoach stop into a political gathering place. Ferryman Jefferson T. Rogers was elected mayor ten times. Calvin Gunn established the town's first newspaper and was the state's first printer. Join author Michelle Brooks as she details these and more forgotten stories from the capital city's past.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem Jefferson City written by Ms. Michelle Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Jeff City The first century of the wilderness-born Missouri capital was filled with villainous escapes from the state's only prison, resulting in theft, abuse and even murder. The grandest of escape attempts ended with the city's only triple hanging. The capital city had plenty of entrepreneurs willing to sidestep the federal Volstead Act, which attracted Ku Klux Klan activity and culminated in the election of a "law and order" sheriff, whose deputies broke laws to enforce them. Many other tragedies grieved the community, including the South Side murder of a German immigrant by a teen-aged deputy, who had been caught sleeping with the victim's daughter. Author Michelle Brooks has collected a sample of some of the shocking events of Jefferson City's first century.
Download or read book Lost Jefferson City written by Michelle Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson City incorporated in 1825, but so much of that history has changed or been forgotten. Today's Lincoln University practice field used to host early circus visitors. Although called St. Peter Cemetery #1, the old recently restored cemetery on West Main Street was the second Catholic cemetery, after the sight and smell at the northeast corner of Bolivar and McCarty Streets was too much for neighbors. The man who designed the Missouri State Seal and served as a longtime judge built a Steamboat-style home on a hill at the northwest corner of Adams and High Streets, where the Missouri River Regional Library is today. Author Michelle Brooks explores the world of the Mill Bottom and the Foot, as well as cemeteries, fairgrounds, ballparks and stately homes lost to time.
Download or read book Murder Mayhem Jefferson City written by Michelle Brooks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Side of Jeff City The first century of the wilderness-born Missouri capital was filled with villainous escapes from the state's only prison, resulting in theft, abuse and even murder. The grandest of escape attempts ended with the city's only triple hanging. The capital city had plenty of entrepreneurs willing to sidestep the federal Volstead Act, which attracted Ku Klux Klan activity and culminated in the election of a "law and order" sheriff, whose deputies broke laws to enforce them. Many other tragedies grieved the community, including the South Side murder of a German immigrant by a teen-aged deputy, who had been caught sleeping with the victim's daughter. Author Michelle Brooks has collected a sample of some of the shocking events of Jefferson City's first century.
Download or read book Tombstone Inscriptions written by Duane Lyle Borden and published by . This book was released on 1972* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret City written by Fred Goodman and published by Broadway. This book was released on 2004 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Joseph Mitchell and E. L. Doctorow, a haunting and genre-defying portrait gallery of once-eminent, now half-forgotten New Yorkers buried in the city's largest cemetery Woodlawn Cemetery is a massive necropolis, four hundred immaculately and privately maintained acres in the north Bronx that serve as the final resting place for three hundred thousand New Yorkers. It is a place of startling serenity and architectural distinction as well as cultural and historical significance that nonetheless remains unknown to the majority of people who live in the city. Which is surprising when one learns that its (very) long-term inhabitants include Herman Melville, Duke Ellington, Robert Moses, Fiorello La Guardia, Miles Davis, and dozens of Gilded Age grandeesincluding Goulds and Astorswho were determined to spend eternity with opulence to match their residences while alive. Writer Fred Goodman stumbled upon Woodlawn one day when he wandered off his bicycling path.The Secret Cityis the product of his frankly obsessive researches into the lives of many of the once famed, now forgotten men and women buried there. Featuring nine dramatic episodes, chronologically arranged, each story presents an exceptional individual caught up in a defining or historical moment of New York's social, political, commercial, or artistic life. Readers meet phrenologist and publisher Orson Fowler, ASPCA founder Henry Bergh, Gilded Age railroad magnate Austin Corbin, political satirist Finley Peter Dunne, "Boy Mayor" John Purroy Mitchel, attorney Francis Garvan, sculptor Attilio Piccirilli, Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen, leftist East Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio, and pioneering aviatrix Ruth Nichols. Framing and tying together these novelistic tales is the first-person narrative of the author's discovery of Woodlawn and his research.The Secret Cityis, then, an act of resurrectiona way of putting flesh on the anonymous dead, and humanizing and demystifying a city whose fabulous history is, too often, interred with its inhabitants.
Download or read book Historical Pictorial and Biographical Record of Chariton County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Journey written by Jefferson City Convention and Visitors Bureau (Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The 1849 Cholera Outbreak in Jefferson City written by Gary Elliott and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849, a steamship named after President James Monroe headed from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, Iowa. The passengers were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Philadelphia. At St. Louis, they were joined with a group of California gold diggers from Jeffersonville, Indiana. But their trip was interrupted when cholera broke out on board. Local fourteen-year-old James McHenry discovered the steamship after it landed at Jefferson City and observed the dead and dying victims along the riverbank. Author Gary Elliott details the history of the outbreak in the city and its far-reaching effects.
Download or read book A History of New Mexico written by Charles Florus Coan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scarborough Family History written by Carlos R. Owens and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999-06-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Exploring Historic Jefferson City written by Gary R. Kremer and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Tales of St Louis written by Mark Zeman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tales That Made St. Louis St. Louis may be known as the Gateway to the West, but its history holds many stories buried through time that show a different side. Discover which Hollywood leading man and heartthrob originated the custom of leaving a chocolate on a hotel pillow. Learn which high school was named after a senator who was nearly beaten to death on the senate floor. Puzzle over the lavish dinner party held in a sewer, and be amazed to find a masterpiece hidden in the ceiling of a U-Haul building. Author and historian Mark Zeman unveils the forgotten history of St. Louis.
Download or read book The History of Jackson County Missouri written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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