Stories tagged "Concordia Missouri": 6
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Concordia Missouri Topsy's Diner
Diners are something many people think of when they think of rural America. Topsy's in Concordia is the quintessential small-town diner. The diner was opened in 1912 by E. H. "Topsy" and Emma Oetting who operated the business until…
Concordia Missouri St. Paul's College
In 1883, Paster Biltz, his congregation at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Concordia Missouri, as well as sister congregations in Emma and Alma Missouri, insisted on the need for a school in the western district of the Lutheran Church Missouri…
Concordia Missouri Train Caboose
Railroads came to Missouri via the Missouri Pacific Railroad. This railroad started in St. Louis and would stretch all the way to Kansas City. Though construction was started in 1851, it took 14 years to complete.
Lafayette County, seeing the…
Emma Missouri Civil War Massacre Monument
September 27, 1864, marked one of the bloodiest guerilla conflicts in Missouri throughout the war. It was on this date in Centralia, Missouri 400 bushwhackers led by William "Bloody Bill" Anderson killed all but 32 out of 155 new Union…
Concordia Missouri Franz J. Biltz
It is difficult to discuss the history of Concordia without first discussing Franz Julius Biltz. Born in Mittelfrohna, then part of the Kingdom of Saxony now Germany in 1825, Biltz became an orphan at age twelve. His half-sister, Ms. Louise Volker,…
Concordia Missouri Marker
Starting in 1847, a stagecoach passed through Freedom Township twice a week as it traveled between Sedalia and Lexington. In 1851, a relay station was built along this road 3 miles east of St. Paul's church known as Cook's Store. When a…