Arrow Star - Arrow Rock, Missouri - Painted Barn Quilts on Waymarking.com

I was able to identify the quilt block using the following website:
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The coordinates were taken from the road leading to the barn. According to the owner, the barn was constructed sometime in the twenties - I was able to talk to him while I waymarked. The text of the historic marker in front of the main house:

"Prairie Park" was built between 1845 and 1849 by William Breathitt Sappington and his wife Mary Mildred Breathitt Sappington. It is one of the finest surviving examples of nineteenth century Greek Revival architecture in rural Missouri and was a center of early social and political life in the Boonslick area. Originally the centerpiece of a 600 acre plantation, it was home to the Sappingtons and their descendants until 1918.

William B. Sappington's father, Dr. John B. Sappington (1776-1856) is recognized by historians as the most successful manufacturer of patent medicine to combat malaria in antebellum America. By the 1840's, his quinine-based anti-fever pills had become a standard drug for the treatment of malaria throughout the developing West. Dr. Sappington's trading empire produced a fortune, one that he shared with his children.

William B. Sappington (1811-1888) was a highly respected businessman, farmer, banker and community leader in Saline County. A Confederate sympathizer, Sappington was brother-in-law of Governor Clairborne Fox Jackson, who tried to lead Missouri out of the Union in 1861, and the Uncle of Confederate General John Sappington Marmaduke, whose election as Governor in 1885 signaled that hatred created by the war were at an end.

Your Visit: Great visit since I was able to talk to the owner. Got great stories about the history of the old house and found out that we went to the same high school - although he graduated several years before me! The house, unlike many others in the area, survived the war because the Sappington's were so respected by both sides of the war. Type of Barn: Barn still in use

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