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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSX0_shrine-mosque_Springfield-MO.html
Built by the Abou Ben Adhem Temple, the Shrine Mosque was dedicated November 3, 1923. Heckenlively and Mark were architects and Stanley Uthwatt created the stained glass windows. In addition to serving the Shrine, the Mosque has been the cultural …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWX_butterfield-overland-stage_Springfield-MO.html
Site of Gen. Nicholas Smith's tavern on Boonville Road, earliest outlet of Springfield, also station of Butterfield Stage Route carrying first overland mail from St. Louis to Pacific Coast. Government subsidy $600,000 yearly. First mail left St. L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWW_first-store-in-greene-county_Springfield-MO.html
Site of first store in southwest Greene County, a little log cabin, supplied with goods from Boonville, Missouri, 1831, and conducted by Junius T. Campbell, brother of John P. Campbell, founder of Springfield. Marker erected 1921 by Reps Dry Goods…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWU_first-cabin-in-springfield_Springfield-MO.html
About February, 1830, William Fulbright erected, near this spot, the first cabin built on the site of the present city of Springfield. At the same time, A. J. Burnett built a pole cabin near the natural well, and John Fulbright another near Jones'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSWC_first-school-house-in-greene-county_Springfield-MO.html
225 feet south of this spot the first school-house in Greene County was built by pioneers 1831. Small cabin, logs cut out for window and door openings. No shutter, door or chimney. Dirt floor. Three-legged benches. First teacher, Joseph Rountree. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQ7E_vietnam-war-memorial_Springfield-MO.html
In honored memory of those who served in defense of their country so that all may enjoy freedom.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO04_battle-of-springfield_Springfield-MO.html
This point marks the farthest advance of the Confederates into the city. After finally routing the 72nd Enrolled Missouri Militia, Confederates were forming along Walnut Street for the final assault into the city when drums along Jordan Creek to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNKD_springfield_Brookline-MO.html
(Front):Queen City of the Ozarks, settled in 1830 by Tennessee pioneers on what had been a Kickapoo, Osage, and Delaware Indian camping ground. Springfield was first called Campbell and Fulbright Springs after its first settlers. Rivalry over loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK9_zagonyis-charge_Springfield-MO.html
This marker commemorates one of the most daring and brilliant cavalry charges of the Civil War. Late at night, Oct. 24, 1861, Maj. Charles Zagonyi, commander of Fremont's body guard, with 300 men, including 130 of Maj. White's Prairie Scouts, left…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNK7_battles-beginning-and-end_Republic-MO.html
This Northern spur of Bloody Hill saw the beginning and end of the battle. In the days proceeding the fight, the field before you was the camp of the 1,200 cavalrymen of Colonel James Cawthorne's Missouri State Guard Brigade.
At dawn on August…