Playground - A.H. Domann Memorial Park - Auxvasse, MO - Public Playgrounds on Waymarking.com

County of park: Callaway County
Location of park: Chestnut St. and Elm St., Auxvasse
Phone: 573.386.2227

Park honors Dr. Domann who was murdered

A.H. Domann D.O., was the town physician. His body was found in 1980 by fishermen. The murders were eventually captured and convicted. But he was missed in this town of 800 or so residents. and this park, the only large green space park in town, was named in his honor.

"Auxvasse was laid out in the fall of 1871. Mr. Thomas B. Harris, who owned the land, founded the town when the Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad announced plans to build a rail line from Mexico, Missouri to Cedar City. He named the town Clinton City. The official plat was filed in the Callaway County Recorder's office on October 23, 1873. Mr. Harris's town was bustling with nearly 100 people by that time. Carpenter S.B. Meyers built the first Auxvasse homes in 1872. He also built a carpenter shop that was later converted into a blacksmith shop.

"The name Auxvasse was given to the creek by early French explorers who had trouble crossing the stream in the area east of the present town of Mokane. Lillbourn W. Boggs, who later became governor of Missouri, was traveling with the Frenchmen at the time. Some of the wagons became mired and were pulled free only after long hard labor by the entire company. Thereafter, the French called the stream "Riviere Aux Vases" or river with miry places." ~ City of Auxvasse