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Dorothy Van Dyke Leake, an educator noted for her ecological work and her efforts to preserve Crane Creek in Stone County, was born on September 6, 1893, in Columbus Junction, Iowa.

The Lemp Brewery in St. Louis was established by Johann Adam Lemp in the early 1840s.

The Gentry–Threlkeld–Van Horn Tavern, usually referred to as the Van Horn Tavern, was the last known log tavern building standing on the Boone’s Lick Road

On April 14, 1876, the eleventh anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, a handsome bronze statue called the Freedmen’s Memorial Monument was unveiled in Washington, DC.

During the early hours of December 16, 1811, a series of violent shakes roused inhabitants of the mid-Mississippi valley from their nighttime slumbers.