Bellevue Collegiate Cairn - north of Caldonia, MO
Posted by: YoSam.
N 37° 46.672 W 090° 46.559
15S E 695862 N 4183498
Cairn to remember a college that use to stand on this ground
Waymark Code: WMWDYH
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2017
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County of cairn: Washington County
Location of cairn: MO 21 & MO C, Caldonia
Date memorial erected: 1930
Memorial Designed by: Dr. Burt W. Loomis
Constructed by: Lyman Sadler
Text on cairn:
BELLEVUE COLLEGIATE
INSTITUTE
1867 --- 1902
First College owned by
St. Louis Conference of
THE METHODIST CHURCH
SOUTH
Bell for the former Bellevue Collegiate Institute which was the first college owned by the St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Church South and operated 1867-1902. The bell is located north of Caledonia across road from Methodist Cemetery.
Cairn Location: Small roadside park corner of MO-21 & MO-C
Cairn Purpose: Other (please describe in description)
Type if different from above list: Historic
Types of rock: Sandstone, shale, limestone, dolomite, chert, fireclay, coal and conglomerate, granite,
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