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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYQ_the-boder-building_St-Joseph-MO.html
This property has been placed on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYP_missouri-valley-trust-company_St-Joseph-MO.html
Oldest building west of theMississippi River to functioncontinuously as a bank
This property has been placed on theNational Registerof Historic Placesby the United StatesDepartment of the Interior
Saint Joseph Landmark
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYM_st-michaels-prairie-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition_St-Joseph-MO.html
St. Michael's PrairieSt. Michael's Prairie, the site where St. Joseph would be established, was identified on maps at least as early as 1792. French explorers and trappers had been traveling up and down the Missouri River since the early 1700s, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYK_pony-express_St-Joseph-MO.html
On this site, April 3, 1860, a ferry carrying a horse and rider crossed the Missouri River to start a 10 day journey of 1,966 miles to deliver mail to Sacramento, California.
The race against time, elements and a hostile land captured the spiri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYI_joseph-robidoux_St-Joseph-MO.html
Near this site the French fur trader Joseph Robidoux established a trading post in 1826 while it was still Indian territory. Robidoux and his family oversaw a far-ranging fur trading empire.
The Platte Purchase of 1837 added the six county nort…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVYH_the-california-oregon-trail_St-Joseph-MO.html
Each spring thousands of emigrants camped in these hills and meadows waiting for new grass to support their teams along the trail. Wagons lined St. Joseph streets to the east waiting for two to three days to be ferried from this point. The settler…