TO LINK TO THE COOPER COUNTY HISTORICAL WEBSITE

     Cooper County Historical Society Research Center  

111 Roe Street Pilot Grove, MO 660-834-3434 or

660-834-4140 email to mbrewer@iland.net or agchipley@socket.net

Crestmead Home

Mile 203.3 Crestmead Home

7400 Hwy 'A' Pilot Grove,  MO 65276

660-834-4140 Historic home, available for tours

Link to Ante-Bellum Tour

FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANTE-BELLUM

TOUR CLICK HERE

Dave Mckenney's Museum of Civil War Artifacts

Dave McKinney's house (649 Game Drive) on the left

has the eastern length of the trench on his property.

It is marked with a flagpole and bronze plaque.

His display of items discovered in the trenches

with information is in a small museum located on the

property. He generously offers tours to visitors.

Phone 660-366-4703

Day in the Country June, 18th 2005

Box 51 Pilot Grove, MO 65276

Tours of Old Pilot Grove Calaboose Museum

                 Ante-Bellum Tour of Historic Homes $3.00             

Pleasant Green Plantation House

Mile 203.3

Pleasant Green Plantation House

7045 Hwy 135
Pilot Grove,  MO 65276
660-834-3945
Price Range: Children Free

Hours: First Sunday of each month, May-Oct.

Closing for the season: 10-05

Swinney Quarry

The Swinney Quarry is part of the Katy Trail-on the East

side of the Lamine River North of Clifton City. The quarry was used

for excavating ballast used to build the MKT Railroad track

in early 1870’s. It provided employment for many local people.

There was a RR spur where train cars could be loaded

with rock to move along the existing tracks. Early pictures

show mules hauling the broken rock in wagons to be loaded.

Union Army Trenches

The state marker for the trenches is at the boat launch by the highway

bridge crossing the Lamine River East of Otterville which was

once the location of the Union encampment called Camp Curtis

begun in the winter of 1861 and occupied by Union soldiers

until 1865. The gravel road south of the marker (across the Railroad tracks) is called

Game Drive. Dave McKinney's house (649 Game Drive) on the left

has the eastern length of the trench on his property. It

is marked with a flagpole and bronze plaque. His display

of items discovered in the trenches with information is

in a small museum located on the property. He generously offers tours to visitors.

Phone 660-366-4703