Heading east from New Haven, we’re going to be looking at Washington, Missouri in Franklin County. I’m actually kind of surprised, only two months from the sixteenth anniversary of St. Louis Patina, that I’ve never covered this important city on the Missouri River. We’ll start our tour by looking at St. Francis Borgia Roman Catholic…
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Front Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Perhaps it’s illogical that Front Street faces a bluff and not the Missouri River, but nonetheless, the businesses lining the side of the thoroughfare that runs parallel to the train tracks is a wholly intact row of storefronts. The town has a website promoting the downtown’s stores and events. The buildings are all occupied or…
Main Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Main Street faces the water, demonstrating that New Haven was a town founded on the river. There are still some old wood frame houses in between the street and the river. I assume they are some of the oldest buildings in town, but I do not know. There was a ferry at one point across…
Wall Street, New Haven, Franklin County
Turning from Maupin onto Wall Street in New Haven, we’re greeted by perhaps one of the most beautiful stretches of streetscape in Missouri. The architectural styles range from the mid Nineteenth Century to the early Twentieth with Greek Revival to the Arts and Crafts. Perhaps what is interesting is that due to the sheer drop…
New Haven, Franklin County
The land for New Haven was purchased by Phillip Miller in 1836 down along the river, and at the basis for the settlement was the selling of wood to riverboats that passed by. But first we’ll look up in the highlands, where streets follow the ridgelines from Highway 100. First up is the school, which…
Eastern Quarry, Pacific
Further east, there is another giant quarry hollowed out of the earth. The large swath of flat land out in front of the quarry holes has been rezoned as an industrial park. I would assume this land was once the staged ground for the quarries behind.
Western Quarry, Pacific
I never expected to see these incredible quarries hollowed out of the rock face on the western side of Pacific. They are the standard type I see around the region; the mountain is shaved off, and then tunnels are carved into the mountains. I would love to learn more about these huge excavations.
Downtown Pacific
I had never made it to downtown Pacific before, but it is very well preserved, and has some nice buildings. The opera house is built in an interesting, eclectic style, and is not something I have seen exactly in St. Louis. But these buildings, above and below, could easily be in St. Louis. This double…
Resurrection Hill Cemetery
Resurrection Hill Cemetery, an African-American burial ground, is tucked on hilly ground just north of I-44 on route OO. The road to the cemetery swoops up an incline, where there is a small parking lot. I-44 is in the background.
Pacific Cemetery
Update: On July 29th, the vast majority of the stones were fixed by the amazing Franklin County Cemetery Society. Read my original article here. The City of Pacific’s cemetery was vandalized back in the winter.