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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4F_don-louis-lorimier-el-camino-real_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
Don Louis LorimierOn this site stood the home of Don Louis Lorimier first commandant of the Spanish Military Post established here in 1793 Erected by the Nancy Hunter Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution 1917El Camino Real New Madrid Cape …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4E_the-mississippi-river_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
"The Father of Water" has provided means of travel and commerce since early days. Indians, explorers, priests, traders, and settlers plied its current in canoes, dugouts, flatboats, keelboats, packets, and towboats.
Until the Civil War, Cape Gi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZ4D_old-st-vincents-church_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
On this site in 1833, Father John Timon, a Vincention Priest, celebrated mass in a warehouse of Don Louis Lorimier.
The first St. Vincent's Church, constructed in 1838, was destroyed by a tornado in 1850. Re-built a year later, the foundation o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYYU_george-drouillard_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
George Drouillard was cheif hunter and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark Expedition Corps of Discovery. He was the son of a Frenchman and Shawnee woman as well as nephew of Louis Lorimier, Commandant of the Cape Girardeau District. Drouillard liv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPQD_telephone-service_Cape-Girardeau-MO.html
1877 1896Telephone ServiceIn 1877The first long distance telephone line in Missouri was completed December 18, 1877 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson.
In 1896Here in a 10' by 12' second floor room the city's first telephone exchange was estab…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNN7_bollinger-mill-burfordville-covered-bridge_Whitewater-MO.html
(Front):Bollinger MillMaj. George Frederick Bollinger built the first mill here in 1800, on a 640-acre grant from Louis Lorimier, Spanish Commandant of Cape Girardeau district of Upper Louisiana. A German Swiss from North Carolina, Bollinger visit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMK7_historical-marker_Millersville-MO.html
The Niswonger family came to this area from Lincoln Co. N.C. in a caravan of 20 families, they crossed the river on ice near Ste. Genevieve Jan. 1, 1800, then came south to the Whitewater creeks along which they settled. The family consisted of 3 …