It's a great little Museum, also an Amtrak station. Wonderful folks are working there; it's also a…read morehistoric train depot.

I've only been once, and briefly, but the neatness of the facility, the amount of historical…read moreartifacts (antique clothing, farm equipment, and more), the helpfulness of the staff and the holdings they have will bring me back sometime soon.

The library in Perryville is an exceptional place!! Employees are very kind and helpful!! I feel…read morelike our city is lucky to have this great facility!!

This beautiful building is the centerpiece of the Courthouse Square District. It is designed in the…read moreBeaux Arts style with two-story Corinthian colonnades and arcades on the upper section. Clocks are located above each arcade and there are floral medallions between the first and second-story windows. Summarizing the marker on the grounds, St. Francois County was established in 1821. This is the fourth courthouse on this location, completed in 1927. The first was built in 1823 after Missouri became a state in 1821. The second and third were built in 1848 and 1885, respectively. During the construction of this structure, there was interest in using locally-sourced red granite but Bedford limestone and Carthage marble were used instead. It is said that the building has an entrance on each side so that no business would have to face the back of the courthouse. [Review 1257 of 2024 - 359 in Missouri - 22280 overall]

Under renovation but always a nice place for a little side trip…read more Great history lessons when staff on site

Sept 2015, Tony, Noel and I along with our doggie Sammi, went to several State Parks in Missouri…read moreand we stopped at Bollinger Mill State Historic Site to check out the old grist mill and the Burfordville Covered Bridge. The park is FREE to enjoy. The parking lot is full of trees and gravel and makes for a nice shaded area. There are picnic tables and NO grills but you can bring a picnic basket with food in it. We walked around the grist mill and the Covered bridge. It is a very lovely park and easy to find once you put in the GPS information. History of the Bollinger Grist Mill. The Bollinger Mill State Historic Site is a state-owned property preserving a mill and covered bridge that pre-date the American Civil War in Burfordville, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. The park was established in 1967 and offers mill tours and picnicking. It is managed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Mill History: In 1797, George Frederick Bollinger received a land grant from the Spanish Government and moved with several other families from North Carolina to what is now Burfordville, Missouri.[4] 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. Following the war, the mill site was sold to Solomon R. Burford. The current four-story brick mill was completed by Burford in 1867 and is built upon the limestone foundation of the 1825 building. Burford owned the mill until 1897, when the Cape County Milling Company took over operations and continued operating the mill until 1953 when the mill was sold to the Vandivort family, relatives of George Bollinger. The mill was donated to the Cape Girardeau County Historical Society in 1961 and to the State of Missouri in 1967.[3] Three years later, the mill was added to the National Register of Historic Places

Fun, engaging, immaculate park. Important, if little known, battle that protected StL from…read more Confederates.