Update: I visited the nearby Francis Howell Cemetery and another Howell family burial ground in the summer of 2023. The story of Thomas Howell is fascinating; he was an early settler out in St. Charles County, having originally been born in North Carolina. He is buried in the cemetery that bears his name, and his…
Tag: Weldon Spring
August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area
Formerly owned by the Federal government, the August A. Busch Conservation Area was purchased in his memory by his widow Alice Busch in 1947. I had always thought it was much older, and the government had requisitioned it during the war. There are still bunkers left over from the war (and in other parts of…
Containment Dome, Weldon Spring
Update: See August A. Busch Conservation Area, where munitions were stored during World War II in conjunction with their manufacture at Weldon Springs. A group of friends and I were in the neighborhood, so we headed out to the old Weldon Spring Munitions Plant, in southwestern St. Charles County. The history of the production of…