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Tales from Days Gone By

Dr. Bill Eddleman

Behind the big themes, celebrated figures, and dry dates of history are the interesting stories of life in the past and ordinary people. Southeast Missouri has a varied and rich history that you often don’t hear about in history classes. Join Bill Eddleman of the State Historical Society of Missouri to hear about these stories with “Tales from Days Gone By.”

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Zell Cave – Dining and Dancing Underground

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2025/06/16

Among local legends in the Ste. Genevieve community of Zell is one concerning a cave used for aging local products of the brewer’s art.

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Taking the Waters: “The Wonders of Lithium Have Not...

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2025/05/21

In early 1882, three would-be entrepreneurs from Illinois, Dr. Henry Clay Fish, Richard P. Dobbs and James G. Christian, tested the waters of several springs in Perry County.

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Land of Her Own: Hannah Williams’ Preemption Claim

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2025/05/07

The road to getting federal land into private hands through purchase was often complicated in the early 1800s.

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3:59

“The Most Efficient Officer…”: William H. McLane in...

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2025/04/23

William H. McLane, born July 6, 1816, was the youngest of six sons of John McLane and Lydia Lawrence McLane.

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Captain Henry Whitener – Early Settler on Upper...

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2025/04/09

Perhaps the most prominent man and largest landowner from Lincoln County, North Carolina, to move to Missouri in the early 1800s was Captain Henry Whitener.

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“An Exclusive American Community”: Bellevue Valley...

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2025/03/26

Early settlers in the old lead belt that became Washington and adjacent counties were French until the late 1790s.

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3:59

An 1850s Transportation Marvel Across the Bootheel:...

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2025/03/12

One of the factors that plagued east-west transportation in the Missouri Bootheel was blockage by swamps running mostly north-south.

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Zimri A. Carter: Namesake of Carter County

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2025/02/26

Missouri’s counties are named for national or religious heroes, Presidents, geographic features, and politicians, among others.

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"New Poles on Front Street": Telephone Services Come...

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2025/02/12

Even though Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876, the invention caught on slowly.

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“All in Ironton are Black Except…”—A Civil War...

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2025/01/22

A Civil War map in the National Archives in College Park, Maryland reads, “S. E. Missouri, Country Around Ironton” on its reverse. It is a sketch map of the Arcadia Valley from Pilot Knob to Arcadia, including Ironton. The map was prepared in 1861, according to its title in the National Archives, “1861 Confederate Map of Ironton, Missouri and Vicinity.”

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A Pioneer Missouri Ornithologist Finds an Enigmatic...

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2025/01/08

Otto Widmann is unknown to the average Missourian but is an icon to those who study Missouri birds.

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“A Christmas Day Ramble” in Ste. Genevieve in 1873

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2024/12/25

S. Henry Smith, founder and editor of the Fair Play newspaper in Ste. Genevieve, possibly under the influence of some writings of Mark Twain, prepared a tongue-in-cheek story about a ramble through town on Christmas, 1873.

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“One of the Most Startling Crimes Ever Committed in...

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2024/12/11

At 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 19, 1901, J. H. Tettaton proceeded from the Dunklin County jail, escorted by Deputies John H. Bledsoe and Hiram A. Gardner, and preceded by Sheriff Will Satterfield, to a gallows in Kennett.

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Not Just on Oceans: The Mississippi River Capes in...

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2024/11/27

The name “Cape Girardeau” puzzles many non-residents of Southeast Missouri, who wonder why a coastal feature is at such an inland location.

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History of the Greater Prairie Chicken in Missouri

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2024/11/13

American settlers in Missouri 200 years ago would have been familiar with a ghostly “booming” sound heard in later winter and early spring on prairies. The source of this sound was displaying male greater prairie chickens.

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Killed by a Madman: The Tragedy on the Annie P. Silver

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2024/10/23

Misfortune followed the Annie P. Silver. Built in summer 1878 from the dismantled Susie Silver, she operated in the St. Louis-New Orleans trade.

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A Strong Desire to be of Service and Benefit:...

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2024/10/09

Rural residents often viewed lawyers suspiciously if they moved into their neighborhood after the Civil War with the intent of making their fortune. Such was not the case with Benjamin Benson Cahoon.

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Ella McClendon: The Sturdivant Postmistress and Her...

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2024/09/25

The death of George M. Nicholas in 1912 occurred under suspicious circumstances. Nicholas was a rich Virginia farmer who amassed substantial cash and property, aided by his miserly habits. He had been a recluse, never married, and left no will. His heirs were his four brothers. Surprisingly, evidence suggested Nicholas died by poison placed in his coffee.

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"A Trying Situation": Sam Parker and the Pursuit of...

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2024/09/11

The December 19, 1910, issue of The National Tribune of Washington, D. C. contained a letter from James A. Lawrence of Tecumseh, Nebraska, concerning an event from the Civil War in Cape Girardeau County in September 1863.

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An Innovator in School Photography: Vincent J. Dunker...

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2024/08/21

Prior to digital photography, photographers had the problem of taking dozens of portrait photographs for school yearbooks quickly. Cameras used before the 1920s required frequent changes of film, slowing the process, and increasing costs. A Ste. Genevieve photographer, Vincent J. Dunker, solved the problem by inventing a specialty, long-roll camera for school portrait photography.

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