A history of Boonville,
since 1817
Postcards, papers and photographs of Boonville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The community derives its name from Nathan and Daniel Morgan Boone, who were the sons of Daniel Boone and established their salt business near the community in the early 1800s, delivering their product from salt licks to St. Louis. The area has been called "Boone's Lick" and the route from the lick to St. Charles/St. Louis, Missouri is called the Boone's Lick Trail. The eastern terminus near Boonville at Franklin, Missouri is considered the original start of the Santa Fe Trail.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Boonville’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewProspectus ofThe Boonville Monito…, 1864: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Boonville
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Boonville, decade by decade
30 historic places in Boonville
Boonville has 30 listings on the National Register, and they protect 361 historic buildings, because Historic District D alone counts 88.
Where they are
When they were listed
Listed 1969Lyric Theater
Listed 1983Historic District D
Listed 1983Roeschel-Toennes-Oswald Property
Listed 1990Albert Gallatin Blakey House
Listed 1990Andrew Gantner House
Listed 1990Andrews-Wing House
Listed 1990Cobblestone Street
Listed 1990Duke and Mary Diggs House
Listed 1990Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company Building
Listed 1990Josephine Trigg Pigott House
Listed 1990Juliet Trigg Johnson House
Listed 1990Meierhoffer Sand Company Office Building
Listed 1990Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad Depot
Listed 1990Morton-Myer House
Listed 1990St. Matthew's Chapel A.M.E. Church
Listed 1990Summer Public School
Listed 1990Thomas Nelson House
Listed 1990Wilbur T. and Rhoda Stephens Johnson House
Listed 1990William S. and Mary Beckett HouseListed 1977Boller HouseListed 1983Historic District BListed 1983Historic District CListed 1983Historic District EListed 1983Historic District FListed 1983Historic District HListed 1990Fessler-Secongost HouseListed 1990John S. Dauwalter HouseListed 1990Meierhoffer HouseListed 2019Phoenix American Cob Pipe FactoryListed 2024Kemper Military School Historic District, The (Boundary Increase)Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Prospectus ofThe Boonville Monitor,written by W.G. Blymer, February 6, 1864 (1864) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.