The Maclay Home - Tipton, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 39.567 W 092° 46.908
15S E 518984 N 4279009
“Like stepping into the past” - happy visitor
Waymark Code: WMKT4A
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/26/2014
Views: 1
County of home: Moniteau County
Location of home: 209 Howard St., Tipton
Phone (660) 433-2068
Marker on site: Erected by in 1985 - The Tipton Jaycees and the Friends of the Maclay Home, Inc.
"Built in 1858 as a school for girls called "Rose Hill", which closed with the advent of the Civil War, this 17-room home was headquarters for Union General John C. Fremont in October, 1861. Purchased by the Greim/Maclay family in 1865, it served as a family home until given to the friends of the Maclay Home, Inc. in 1983. The house, on the national Register of Historic Places since 1979, stands as an historic reminder of the vigorous frontier growth associated with the coming of the railroad to Central Missouri."
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