Necessity is the mother of invention.  When the Civil War began, it was relatively easy to sink wooden ships, so both sides immediately began beefing…

Each year, thousands of people will travel to southern Tennessee to see the famous national battleground at Shiloh.  What most people don’t know is that…

When you hear the name Cole Younger, you probably think of an outlaw holding up banks and living a life of crime.  That story is…

It was known as the Burnt District – a place where residents were forced to leave because there was no way to keep the peace…

Sometimes the naming of a town is quite a story in itself.  That’s the case for what became one of Missouri’s largest cities.  However, few…

When you’re building is in the path of a regularly flooding river you might consider moving locations.  This place did just the opposite.  The rebuilt…

There was a time when old mills dotted the landscape, grinding grain into feed and food.  One of the oldest mills in the area still…

The Mississippi River flows over 2500 miles, southward through the Midwestern U.S.  That is, unless you are here, where the river actually meanders north for…

The Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico just south of New Orleans, Louisiana.  But where does the mighty river begin?  That question puzzled…

In the summer of 1966 the Monkees released “The Last Train to Clarksville.”  The song went to number one on the billboard charts and many…