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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVWP_patee-house_St-Joseph-MO.html
The Patee House was the Pony Express Company's Eastern Headquarters from April 3, 1860 to September 13, 1861. The company's official name was "The Central Overland California and Pike's Peak Express Company."
John Patee built the hotel from 185…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTZ9_the-lewis-and-clark-expedition-across-missouri_Rushville-MO.html
"Groops of Shrubs covered with the most delicious froot is to be seen in every direction, and nature appears to have exerted herself to butify the Senery by the variety of flours [flowers] Delicately and highly flavered raised above the Grass, whi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTZ0_the-lewis-and-clark-expedition-across-missouri_Rushville-MO.html
The land that would become Missouri and 14 other western states was acquired by the United States in the greatest land acquisition in American history: the Louisiana Purchase. By the stroke of a pen, President Thomas Jefferson ensured the country …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTYE_lewis-and-clark-in-missouri_Rushville-MO.html
Missouri was a beginning and end for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Planned by President Thomas Jefferson and carried out by the two captains and a large crew, the expedition is a keystone American event. When the United States took ownership of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEL5_patee-town_St-Joseph-MO.html
John Patee came to St. Joseph in 1845 and opened the city's first drugstore at the corner of of Main and Francis Streets. He purchased 320 acres, platted what was known as "Patee Town" and began selling building lots in 1849. He later built the Pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2RE_saint-joseph_St-Joseph-MO.html
(Front): Renowned city of the Pony Express, St. Joseph was first settled as a trading post for the American Fur Company by Joseph Robidoux, 1826. Later he acquired the site and laid out a town in 1843. St. Joseph became an outfitting point for set…