Lost Jefferson City

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Jefferson City incorporated in 1825, but so much of that history has changed or been forgotten. Today's Lincoln University practice field used to host early circus visitors. Although called St. Peter Cemetery #1, the old recently restored cemetery on West Main Street was the second Catholic cemetery, after the sight and smell at the northeast corner of Bolivar and McCarty Streets was too much for neighbors. The man who designed the Missouri State Seal and served as a longtime judge built a Steamboat-style home on a hill at the northwest corner of Adams and High Streets, where the Missouri River Regional Library is today. Author Michelle Brooks explores the world of the Mill Bottom and the Foot, as well as cemeteries, fairgrounds, ballparks and stately homes lost to time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467150354
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/21/2022
Series:	Lost
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michelle Brooks studied anthropology and history at Lincoln University, Jefferson City, and worked on larger research projects, including identifying of members of the Sixty-Second U.S. Colored Troops, founders of Lincoln University; finding men who attended Lincoln University and also served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II as Tuskegee Airmen; and discovering the broad and pioneering career of her grandfather Harry "HAP" Peebles, who was a country music promoter across the Midwest from 1938 to 1993.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 11

Introduction 13

Part I The Mill Bottom

1 Origins 17

2 Making Drinks 20

3 Namesake 26

4 Production and Retail 32

5 Transportation 39

Part II The Foot

6 Before the Foot 49

7 Turning Point 55

8 Emerging 61

9 Service 68

10 Key Ingredient 73

Part III Lost Cemeteries

11 Introduction 83

12 Maple Grove 86

13 Hedge Grove 89

14 Evangelical 94

15 Very First St. Peter 98

Part IV Lost Recreation

16 First Fairgrounds 103

17 Cottage Place Park 109

18 Ruwart Field 113

19 Whiteway Park 118

Part V Lost Homes

20 Maple Terrace 127

21 Summers House 131

22 Priesmeyer Home 134

23 Edwards Home/Miller Theater 137

24 Elston Home 141

25 Knaup Home/City Hotel 144

26 A.C. Shoup Home 148

27 G.F. Robinson Home 150

28 Schoenburg 152

Notes 157

Index 183

About the Author 189