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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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4:04

From Punjaub to Lawrenceton – A Community Changes its...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2026/03/25

The present-day community of Lawrenceton is about 15 miles west of Ste. Genevieve. It is unincorporated, but in its heyday, it had a post office between 1867 and 1941. The initial town, Punjaub, officially changed to Lawrenceton in 1877. So how did an Ozark border community receive the name of a region in India, then later become Lawrenceton?

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3:54

Through the Slip of a Pen: The Ordeal of Moses...

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2026/03/11

The wheels of justice operate in most cases—but often slowly. A tale from St. Francois County illustrates exactly how slowly.

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3:59

All Covered with Heavy Timber: The Vanished Forest of...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2026/02/25

In 1869, the lawyer and future railroad entrepreneur and historian Louis Houck rode the court circuit to Kennett with other lawyers and court officials. Upon reaching a point south of Bloomfield, as he later wrote, “I sat down on a hillside on the left of where Dexter now stands, looking over a vast forest of timber on all sides, greatly impressed; not a single farm in sight or opening in the vast woods except at the foot of the hill, an open place known as Miller’s Farm. Going south for miles we

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3:59

When the Bubble Burst: The Panic of 1837 in Eastern...

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2026/02/11

Economic conditions boomed in Missouri and the country in 1835. The cotton market and prices increased throughout the South, resulting in increased land purchases and growing demand for enslaved workers. Across the Lead Belt of southeast Missouri, rising lead production and increased demand for furs fueled the boom conditions.

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3:59

William A. Bacon’s Service in Southeast Missouri and...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2026/01/21

On a summer’s day in July 1926, a reporter for the Cape Girardeau Southeast Missourian noticed an old man sitting in Courthouse Park across the street from the newspaper. The reporter greeted the man, who introduced himself as William A. Bacon, a Union Civil War veteran who had just celebrated his 80th birthday.

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3:58

"A Place Where People Are Uplifted Spiritually" — The...

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2026/01/07

The area around Arcadia in Iron County first became known to many young people of the mid and late 20th Century as a place to go to summer camp. Many of these camps were church camps and remain, although they are not as popular as they once were.

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3:58

A Merry Christmas in 1872: Reports from Southeast...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/12/24

Not that long ago, a frequent practice of local newspapers was to have a representative of communities in their circulation area report on happenings in those smaller towns. Some of the reports give valuable insight into local history, while others border on gossip.

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3:59

Pilot Training in the Bootheel: The Malden Army Airfield

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/12/10

When the U. S. declared war on Japan and Germany at the end of 1941, mobilization of the armed forces began immediately. An acute need for fighter pilots required that training had to begin as soon as possible. The War Department acquired several new sites for airfields, including 2900-acre site four miles north of Malden in Dunklin County.

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4:12

Nearly 100 Years of Brewing in Old Appleton

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/11/26

One of the longest-running local breweries in southeast Missouri, Old Appleton Brewery, started with a German immigrant, Caspar Ludwig.

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3:57

St. Francois County’s Oldest Settlement: Big River Mills

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/11/12

One of the first American settlements in the Ste. Genevieve District was at a cluster of land grants on the west side of Rivere Grande, or Big River, in present-day St. Francois County.

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3:56

The Unquiet Grave of Nathan Watson

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/10/22

Among all the stories in Southeast Missouri history that have sparked tales of ghosts and hauntings is one that should have but has not.

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3:56

The Bowie Family in Southeast Missouri – Before the...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/10/08

Few people realize that the family of James, or Jim, Bowie, who made the Bowie Knife famous and later died at The Alamo, spent time in Southeast Missouri at the beginning of the 19th Century.

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3:59

Samuel Scism: A Stoddard County Unionist’s Civil War...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/09/24

Samuel Scism’s story is a common one among Civil War soldiers who survived prison camps. Vegetables in their diets might have prevented many cases of chronic dysentery. The state of medical care of the time meant that the malady was untreatable and subject to recurrence.

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Disaster in Chicopee: The Burning of the Jesse Gunn...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/09/10

The quiet of the early evening of March 26, 1912, Chicopee on the Current River in Carter County would soon be broken by a catastrophe.

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4:10

The Many Moves of Aaron Pinson Jr.

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/08/27

Sometimes we underestimate the mobility of the early generations of European settlers in what became the U. S.

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3:59

A Biological Storm: Passenger Pigeons in Eastern...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/08/13

A traveler from southeastern New York, Christian Schultz, descended the Ohio River in 1807. He stopped at the mouth of the Ohio River on the Missouri side on October 24, 1807, and noticed a strange phenomenon.

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3:58

The Tangled Web of Clacy T. Kinder

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/07/23

The morning of November 15, 1923, was out of the ordinary at the Bank of Patterson in Wayne County. The cashier, Clacy T. Kinder, failed to appear.

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3:53

The St. Michael Flood of 1814

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/07/09

Heavy rains fell in late spring and early summer of 1814 in the eastern part of Missouri Territory.

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3:58

The Grassy Towersite and Fire Towers in Southeast...

Tales from Days Gone By ·

2025/06/25

A short drive down County Road 508 in Bollinger County leads to the quiet site of the former location of the Grassy Towersite.

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Zell Cave – Dining and Dancing Underground

Tales from Days Gone By ·

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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