Macon County Missouri Historical Society Museum

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Thanks to Alan Spencer for donating this old safe. He said it came from the Wagon Wheel Cafe and was rumored to have once belonged to a Railroad. Does anyone knows anything about this safe and what Railroad it might have been owned by? Any idea how it ended up at the Wagon Wheel Cafe? The safe is now undergoing restoration.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/y/youngde01.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rosech01.shtml Here are two professional baseball players that were from Macon! Does anyone know anything else about them? The museum would like to get better quality pictures of the men.

Macon, Missouri The American Civil War By Don Hall The Civil War began April 12, 1861 at 4:30 a.m. by Confederate artillery firing on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and ended April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Four long years of war, but before the start of the War, there was political turmoil and great uncertainty of what was to come here in Missouri and the rest of the country. In the years preceding the War, there was violent civil confrontation betw...Continue reading