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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TY_cape-la-croix-creek_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
In 1699, fathers Montigny, Davion, and St. Cosme, French missionaries erected a cross where this stream entered the Mississippi and prayed that this might be the beginning of Christianity among the Indians.The stream has ever since been known as C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TT_the-red-house_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
Pierre-Louis de Lorimier, French-Canadian fur trader, Indian agent, and founder of Cape Girardeau, built the Red House in the late 1790s west of this location on what is now the parking lot of St. Vincent's Church.
The Red House served as the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TQ_the-lewis-and-clark-expedition-across-missouri_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
On Nov. 23, 1803, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived at Cape Girardeau, a trading post established in 1795 by Louis Lorimier, the Spanish-appointed Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Here, Lewis, co-commander of the expedition, lef…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TP_the-red-house-interpretive-center_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
The Red House Interpretive Center, under construction from 2002-2004, is a cooperative effort of the Cape Girardeau Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission and the City of Cape Girardeau. The project was funded in part through grants from the Miss…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TN_cape-girardeau-and-the-railroad_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
After the golden age of the steamboat, port cities like Cape Girardeau suffered as railroads provided alternate means of transportation.
Responding to the post-Civil War railroad boom, a syndicated of local business leaders formed the Cape Gira…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TL_river-commerce_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
Known to Native Americans as "Messipi" ("Big River") or "Mee-zee-see-bee" ("Father of Waters"), the Mississippi River originates in Minnesota and terminates 2,348 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico.The river played an integral part in the establish…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TJ_cape-girardeau-river-crossings_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
In the 1790s, the Spanish governor granted Louis Lorimier permission to operate a ferry service at Cape Girardeau.Thereafter, ferry operators continued to shuttle people and products across the Mississippi River until 1928 when a new, privately bu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TH_champion-beech-tree_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
This stately Beech is one of the largest and oldest trees in the State of Missouri. A registered "champion" tree, it is approximately 200 years old. Quite possibly it was alive at the time of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
The American Beech (…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TG_manitowoc-shipbuilding-company_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
Manitowoc Shipbuilding CompanyOne of the most unusual WWI Mississippi River transportation stories concerns the Manitowoc [Wisconsin] Shipbuilding Co., the nation's only inland builder of submarines.
In December 1940, the U.S. Navy contracted w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13TF_st-vincents-seminary-and-southeast-missouri-state-university_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
Terrace Park is located on the site where Father Odin of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentian Fathers) established St. Vincent's Male Academy in 1838, which was followed shortly thereafter by St. Vincent's Seminary.Often affectionately call…