November 9, 1802
Elijah Lovejoy was born on this date. Lovejoy was a crusading newspaper publisher, who got his start in St. Louis, and he was abolitionist who was…
November 7, 1922
Mellcene Thurman Smith and Sarah Lucille Turner became the first women elected to the State Legislature.
Explore a Remodeled Victorian Home
Gail Breneman talks about the years-long process of bringing her 1890’s property into the new age.
November 6, 1860
This was the last day that Valentine Tapley shaved. He promised his Pike County friends that if Lincoln were to be elected, he would never shave…
November 5, 1931
On this day, forty shots were fired in the Elms Hotel lobby and veranda in a robbery gone bad. The Excelsior Springs police shotgun squad chased the…