Cole, Cooper, and Moniteau Counties

History can be discovered through many channels, but the objects left behind let us see through the eyes of the past. Throughout the 19th…

The History of Old Munichburg

A photograph of the Boonville Business District taken in 1860

The article below is clipped from The Word and Way, a newspaper published from 1896–1979 in Cole County, Missouri. It captures a glimpse of…

The story of Anna Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns, a German immigrant woman who eventually settled in Jefferson City.

This article from The Word and Way newspaper was 2 years before prohibition began in Missouri. The Word and Way is a Baptist newspaper, and…

A discussion of letters written in the 1850’s by Anna Henriette (Jette) Geisberg Bruns, a German immigrant woman from Munster who moved to…

Objects are a wonderful lens to view history through. A book or lecture can inform people about the past, but objects, items, and…

German immigrants were a lot of things in the late-19th-early-20th Century of American development. However, one aspect of German…