Heading north of Highway 94 in search of more cemeteries acquired by the federal government for the uranium processing grounds, we should have known taking the “Lost Valley Trail,” really an old farming road, was going to set ourselves up for an interesting day of exploration. First up, I noticed a break in the rocky…
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Posts about the Surrounding Region in Missouri
The Park at New Melle Lakes
Huh, this park sure looks like a golf course! It turns out it once was, and when it closed, it became a part of the St. Charles County Park System. The new park does have a disk golf course. It is curious the golf course closed considering the sport is becoming more popular in America,…
Lost Weldon Spring, Part Two: Four Cemeteries
Four cemeteries in one day of grueling hiking through the bush! First up is the John Murdock Cemetery. It’s relatively small with just a handful of burials. Look for the plants that are out of place! We really like the Heinrich Schneider Cemetery, located relatively close by on the north side of Highway 94. Again,…
Lost Weldon Spring, Part One: Two Cemeteries
We’ll be exploring and revisiting the area around the Weldon Spring containment dome over the course of this year, exploring and finding the remnants of human habitation that were abandoned when the federal government bought out the residents around the plant that would eventually process the uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons. Here and there,…
Washington, At Night
I was giving a lecture out in Washington, Missouri, and I had some time to kill so I walked around the downtown, taking some pictures of the historic architecture. Above is St. Peter’s United Church of Christ which was founded in 1844. Below is the City Hall. I wandered down some of the other streets…
Another Howell Cemetery, St. Charles County
Besides the Thomas and Francis cemeteries, there is another unmarked Howell burial ground further west on the eponymous road in St. Charles County near Route 94 on the way to Defiance. There are some extremely old burials from the 1700s. Tall trees shade the cemetery. There is even at least one Revolutionary War veteran, below.
Francis Howell Cemetery
Tucked away but not hidden in August A. Busch (Sr.) Wildlife Conservation Area is the Francis Howell Cemetery. We’ve looked at the Thomas Howell Cemetery a few years back, and there are even more cemeteries founded by the family, including one just a few miles away, showing just how prolific and important the clan was…
Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church and Cemetery
We visited the Hopwell Missionary Baptist Church just south of Wentzville in St. Charles County recently, and also looked at the historic cemetery behind the African American congregation’s buildings. The church can trace its roots back so far that at one point some of its members were actually slaves, and the pastor was white, the…
Cannon Cemetery, Indian Camp Creek Park
Inside Indian Camp Creek Park, part of the St. Charles County parks system, is the Cannon Family Cemetery. Secured from the public now with a tall fence, it has numerous graves of the Cannon family, who first settled 180 acres that make up part of the park in 1811. I was particularly intrigued by the…
Hatcher Cemetery, Lake St. Louis
Thanks to a tip, we explored a cemetery in Lake St. Louis just across the street from the Meadows shopping development in Lake St. Louis. It is hiding plain sight, so to speak. It is extremely old, based off the interments on the sign. It is a very intriguing cemetery, as the monuments are either…