Bufordville, Missouri

In 1797, George Frederick Bollinger received a land grant in Upper Louisiana from the Spanish Government and moved with several other families from North Carolina to what is now Burfordville, Missouri. In 1800, Bollinger began building a log dam and mill on the Whitewater River. In 1825, Bollinger rebuilt the mill and dam using limestone. After Bollinger’s death in 1842, his daughter Sarah Daugherty and her sons continued to operate the mill until the Civil War, when the mill was burned by the Union army in order to prevent the supply of flour and meal to the Confederate army.

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Centerville, Missouri

The mill is a replica that was built in 1973 to replace the original mill that was moved to the Smithsonian Institute. The original mill was built in 1881.

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Pilot Knob, Missouri

Fort Davidson was a hexagonal earthwork with approximately 150-foot-long sides. The walls were constructed of packed earth lined with planks on the interior and a dry moat that encircled the fort.

The Battle of Pilot Knob on September 27, 1864, was a fierce Civil War engagement where roughly 1,450 Union defenders under Brigadier General Thomas Ewing Jr. successfully repulsed massive infantry assaults by 8,000 Confederate troops led by Major General Sterling Price before executing a covert night escape.

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