Standing like a bright beacon on a high hilltop

Hundreds of Native Americans make their journey with a stop at North Fork

Volunteers and staff of the State Historical Society have been working steadily over the past several years to complete the digital collection of World War II letters. In 2016, SHSMO began an ambitious project to provide online access to a large manuscript collection of World War II letters …

Located in the north-western tier of Monroe County is a territory known as the Washington Township. In 1836, two towns, Clinton and Jonesburg, were formed with only an alleyway separating them. The two towns have been deemed rivals throughout history and are located south-west of Hunnewell. …

Americas history paints pictures of both beauty and injustice

Getting there was only half the journey

Ox Team Road worn right through the heart of NewMarket

One does not have to travel out west to find a ghost town with an old cemetery.

“Next stop, Lone House located in Shelby County.”

“The starting place for settlers to call home.”

100 Years Ago

“A welcoming village rich in heritage where many families planted their roots:

Karen Hunt, archaeologist and current owner of Mark Twain’s Uncle Quarles farm, hosted guests attending the Clemens Conference last Thursday in Florida, MO. The conference included approximately 60 scholars and professors from all over the world, who come to learn and experience the hands-on…

“A beautiful home site for famous homemade Rhubarb and Norton Grape wines with a dinner of schweinhaxen and sauerkraut: NewMarket, Marion County, Missouri”

“A collection of information on the love and legends of a ghost town: Newmarket, Marion County, Missouri”

“A collection of information on the love and legends of a ghost town: Newmarket, Marion County, Missouri”

“A collection of information on the love and legends of a ghost town: Newmarket, Marion County, Missouri”

The Pearl Harbor Memorial

In this Aug. 18, 2017, photo, a statue of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest sits in a park in Memphis, Tenn. A new historical marker in Memphis will point out that a famed Confederate general was a prosperous slave trader before the Civil War. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz, File)

Kimberly Kronwell, registrar of exhibits and loans to the Colorado History Museum, opens the case containing the “Holy Grail” of baseball cards, a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle that is valued at more than $10 million, to put on display as part of baseball memorabilia exhibit at the Colorado Histo…

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In this Wednesday, June 27, 2018 photo, visitors look at exhibits, entitled “The House of Herod: Life and Power in the Age of the New Testament,” at the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem. Jerusalem’s Franciscan friars have opened The Terra Sancta Museum, a new museum in the old city of Jerusa…

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Civil War Soldier with a CanadianKen Morris, a resident of Eagle Creek, Oregon, and conservation planner with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has been involved with horses for some twenty six years. Whether it’s leading a Civil War reenactment cavalry unit into battle, practicing half pa…

In this April 1, 2016 file photo, radar scanning experts scan a wall in King Tutankhamun’s burial chamber in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt. Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Sunday, May 6, 2018, that new radar scans have provided conclusive evidence that there are no hidden rooms, as…

We hope you enjoy this article retrieved from the April 23, 2014 archived edition of The Lake Gazette.

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This Oct. 25, 1941 photo provided by the U.S. National Archives, shows the USS Juneau afloat just after being launched at the Federal Shipbuilding Company yard,in Kearny, N.J. Wreckage from the USS Juneau, a Navy ship sunk by the Japanese 76 years ago, has been found in the South Pacific. Th…

We hope you enjoy this article retrieved from the March 19, 2014 archived edition of The Lake Gazette.

FILE – In a June 26, 1928 file photo, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart poses with flowers as she arrives in Southampton, England, after her transatlantic flight on the “Friendship” from Burry Point, Wales. Bones found in 1940 on a western Pacific Ocean island were quite likely to be remains …

Rep. Jim Hansen stands with local residents and landowners at the Block GrainBelt Express-Mo meeting March 8. Hansen has stated that he opposed the project,which would bring towers and lines through 14 Missouri counties, including Monroe and Ralls County.

Retrieved from the archived March 5, 2014 edition.

In this Feb. 14, 2018 photo, a lock of George Washington’s hair and the envelope that contained it are seen on a table in the Union College library in Schenectady, N.Y. John Myers, the college’s catalog and metadata librarian, discovered the hair strands in a yellowed envelope he’d found in …

Mary Randolph Custis Lee

MCPD work with area fire departments to battle a fire deemed a total loss in Feb. 2014. Picture retrieved from the Feb. 26, 2014 Lake Gazette edition. To view more history visit www.lakegazette.net