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Missouri State Veterans Cemetery - Bloomfield
Tucked into the southeastern bootheel of Missouri, the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Bloomfield has been uniquely intertwined with a broader history of the American military’s own self-perception and image since it opened in September of 2003.…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery - Jacksonville
The autumn of 2003 saw the Missouri Veterans Commission expand into northeastern Missouri with the establishment of the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Jacksonville, a small town on the border of Randolph county. While the rural location and…
Kansas Veterans Cemetery at Fort Riley
In the late 1990s, the state of Kansas began to face a real problem - how to accommodate the increased need for veterans cemeteries in the region. Just as Missouri was doing at the same time with its Missouri Veteran’s Committee, the Kansas…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery – Springfield
Standing alongside the nearby Springfield National Cemetery, the Missouri State Veterans Cemetery in Springfield offers a resting place for veterans of the modern era. The first cemetery built under the Missouri Veterans Commission program, the…
Missouri State Veterans Cemetery – Fort Leonard Wood
As decades pass and time marches on, the need for newer cemeteries to honor veterans has grown. For the Missouri Veterans Commission, that need came to a head in 1996, when, after persistent lobbying, the State Veterans Cemetery Program was signed…
Fort Riley Post Cemetery
Fort Riley Post Cemetery, like many military cemeteries before it, began with the fort that gives it its name. The site began in 1853, with the establishment of the fort in the plains of Kansas as a hub to protect the heavily trafficked westward…
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Missouri's Little Dixie African American History Tour
Brown's Lodge #22 of the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons was one of four lodge halls that were built by the African American community in Arrow Rock around 1887. The lodge was named for the first minister to lead the African American Baptists…
Lexington Missouri Wentworth Military Academy
Stephen G. Wentworth originally founded the Wentworth Male Academy in 1880 in Lexington, in honor of his son after he died in 1879 and in 1882 it was renamed the Wentworth Military Academy. At the time of the founding of the Wentworth Male Academy, …
Brief History of Holden Missouri
Holden, Missouri is a town of roughly 2,000 residents located 20 miles west of Warrensburg, and named for Major N. B. Holden, a prominent Johnson County politician. In the fall of 1857, Isaac Jacobs purchased 160 acres of open prairie in Johnson…
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Missouri and Kansas National Cemeteries Tour
8 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri Department of History, MA in History student, Lex Alexander, and funded by the Veterans Administration Veterans Legacy Grant ProgramChillicothe Missouri Historical Highlights Tour
10 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri Department of History by MA in History student Glyne Gee with funding support from the Missouri Humanities CouncilKansas City Missouri's 18th and Vine Tour
9 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri Department of History with funding from the Missouri Humanities CouncilPleasant Hill Missouri Historical Highlights Tour
8 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri Department of History with funding from the Missouri Humanities CouncilConcordia and Emma Missouri Historical Tour
8 Locations ~ Curated by University of Central Missouri Department of History, Researched and written by C. J. Gifford, MA in History student and uploaded to Historic Missouri by Glyne Gee, MA in History student. Funding support from the Missouri Humanities CouncilHistoric Missouri
A project by University of Central Missouri History ProgramHistoric Missouri is a free mobile app that provides users easy access to information about the important places, people, and stories that are unique to Missouri. Developed by the faculty and students in the History Program at the University of Central Missouri, the mobile application provides interpretive and curated narrative tours about Missouri’s history. Each point on the map includes historical information about that site and features historic images from Missouri’s archival institutions like the State Historical Society of Missouri and the Missouri State Archives.
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