Monument to 3 Towns - Weldon Spring, MO
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member YoSam.
N 38° 42.190 W 090° 42.562
15S E 699187 N 4286327
Three small farming communities which became ghost towns during the preparation for World War II.
Waymark Code: WM1298H
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2020
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member pmaupin
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County of site: St. Charles County
Location of site: MO-94 & MO-D, Bush Wildlife entrance, Weldon Spring
Date Erected: June 8, 1986

This marble monument is to identify the three town and the people displaced by the Federal Government, and the families that lost everything. Peace today is accepted, but anti-government sentiment lingers in this area.

Roads were blocked off, buildings bulldozed and every thing in thee towns was razed and destroyed.
It later became the Atomic Energy Commission site, then purchased by the Bush family and is today The August Bush Wildlife Conservation Area.

This monument sits next to the Howell Cemetery, and is in itself a tombstone for the towns that died before the war even started.


Marker Text:

[Dove of Peace]
"TNT"
ST. CHARLES COUNTY, MISSOURI
This monument is dedicated to the several hundreds families whose exodus from Howell, Hamburg, and Toonerville-Y communities took place prior to the declaration of World War II, Dec. 7, 1941

The U.S. Government purchased approximately eighteen thousand acres for construction of a plant to manufacture TNT for World War II. Mandatory moving followed from homes , schools, churches, businesses, and farms.

To past, present, and future generations, we express a heartfelt wish: "PEACE"

Kind of dove: Dove with olive branch

Used material for the dove: Other (explanation in the long description)

Address:
MO-94, Weldon Spring, MO 63304


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