There are many Amish in the town of Seymour MO. Check the buggy riders. How pleasant it looks.
Now, for the morbid. Carl Mays killed Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians on August 16, 1920, with a beanball. In 2010 a memorial was erected to the homeboy. How about that!
One store in Mountain Grove MO features the largest U.S. Constitution…or part of it. What are the odds that they sell fire arms there? Pretty Good!
In Mountain View MO, right by the highway, there is a herd of horses made of scrap metal. They are very cute and shiny.
We found a statue of a Chief Indian in Poplar Bluff MO. Being made of concrete makes it different from the usual cigar store Indian statues. There was a street fair going on in town. It may be a regular Saturday event.
We stumbled onto the Wickliffe Mounds after crossing the Mississippi River. Wickliffe is in Ballard County KY. The mounds are not as impressive as the archeological dig site. It was impressive!
The following information about the big cross in our pictures (built with private donations) is from Wikipedia: “In 1780 during the Revolutionary War, General George Rogers Clark established Fort Jefferson on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River one mile south of present-day Wickliffe. The fort was intended to protect what was then the western boundary of the infant United States from raids by the British Army and Native Americans. It was abandoned in 1781 after a siege by the Chickasaw.
“The site later served as a Union Army post during the Civil War. General Ulysses S. Grant directed a demonstration against the Confederate-held position at Columbus, Kentucky, in January 1862. Troops from the post joined in capturing Fort Henry in February 1862. It served as a Union supply post for operations in the western theater of the war.
“A 90-foot-tall (27m) cross, the Fort Jefferson Memorial Cross at the Confluence, was completed in 2000 on Fort Jefferson hill.” Wow!
