Munday's/Monday's Landing, a early steamboat landing on the Mississippi River, pre-Ashburn. Located directly east of Ashburn village, Salt River Twp, PikeCo, MO. Pics of a drive to the landing, pans ...more

around the old landing area and valley. iowaz@hotmail.com

Pics/pans from Hwy 79, which now cuts through the 1200 acres of the old late 1880's Busch farm, with Busch Station down the end of the valley along the RR near the Mississippi River. ...more

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A walk from the Ashburn Dupont Plant 1 area north along the RR tracks to the area of Busch Station in the NE tip of Salt River Twp, Pike Co, MO. Pics and pans are taken along the walk and in the area ...more

the old Busch Station area, which was a RR stop, had a merchant/P.O, school and large ice houses which in the late 1800's supplied ice to the brewery in St. L. iowaz@hotmail.com

Buffalo Jordan Cem, Buffalo Twp, Pike Co, MO, 3mil Sw of Louisiana, T54N, R1W, sec 31. This is a walk-about of the cemetery, with a few close ups of specific markers, the objective of the visit. A ...more

burial listing is at the end of the series. iowaz@swbell.net

Pans of Mt. Ayr Cem and Church during an Oct 2004 visit, with burial info following. This is not a survey or close up of markers, just a general stop on the way by the cemetery. iowaz@swbell.net

A visit to Henderson Cemetery, Cuivre Twp, Pike Co, MO, guided by Bowen Rogers who grew up in the Scott's Springs neighborhood and has lived there most of his life. Henderson Cem is all but destroyed ...more

be agriculture and cattle. Photos of the area, markers, info are in this album. Burial listings, info, Henderson genealogy is also found at http://www.iowaz.info/mopike/mopikehendersoncem.htm iowaz@swbell.net

1916 Maps of Pike Co, Missouri. The first two maps are from the 1875 and 1899 Atlases with the tiers and ranges marked so the general area of interest can be located. Then comes a series of general ...more

overview maps of the townships. Followed by the plat maps with ownership names listed and organized by tier/range. The file names indicates the 'topic' of the maps in series. iowaz@hotmail.com

1924 Maps of Pike Co, Missouri. The first two maps are from the 1875 and 1899 Atlases with the tiers and ranges marked so the general area of interest can be located. Then comes a series of general ...more

overview maps of the townships. Followed by the plat maps with ownership names listed and organized by tier/range. The file names indicates the 'topic' of the maps in series. iowaz@hotmail.com

1930 Plat Maps of Pike Co, Missouri, from the digital library of MU, which also has online all Missouri county plats for 1930, plus a large number of historical references of various topics. ...more

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Various maps of the Ashburn, DuPont Plant, Busch Station area of Salt River Twp, Pike Co, MO, utilized in albums of that same area.

Visit to the Foehringer-Maenner Family Cemtery for a photo survey of the area in the summer of 2007, which is still located on the Droste farm, on the W side of sec 2, T55N, R3W, Salt River Twp, Pike ...more

Co, MO. Three markers were located within the fenced area; John George Maenner and his wife Katie, Wilhelm Foehringer, and Paulina Margarethe Foehinger, dau of Wilhelm. One fieldstone was observed. Due to time and heat, the area around the fence was not searched or probed. Some picture file names indicate the start of a series of pics regarding a topic. iowaz@hotmail.com

Pics of the south valley area or the LaMotte Plant of the old DuPont Explosive Plant, a mile plus north of Ashburn. This was initially land owned by the Wm. Watters Sr. family, with the old family ...more

cemetery still located above the entry or farmstead area. Pics of the cemetery are in another album, plus a web page linked off http://www.iowaz.info
Another album will contain pictures of a walk from the south valley along the old shortline railroad that connected it into the north valley of the plant, couple of miles north. Other albums will show the old Woodall farmstead and the Busch Station area. iowaz@hotmail.com

Sequential pics taken on a walk from the south valley of the Dupont Plant, or the LaMotte Plant, northward along the connecting railroad bed and trail to the north valley plant. Other albums contain ...more

pics of the walk from that point northward to the Woodall farmstead, Busch Station, and back to LaMotte Station. iowaz@hotmail.com

Woodall farmstead walk-about series of pics. Some of the first pics have information. Old maps follow the series. Some files have extended names to describe a series of pics. In 2007, some of the ...more

old farmstead building foundations can be seen and some of the later building debris can be located. The farmstead sat under the western Mississippi River bluff before the time of Ashburn village to the south and Busch Station to the north. iowaz@swbell.net

Ehert-Hitz Family Cem, Salt River Twp, Pike Co, MO, middle of sec 2, T55N, R3W. Photo survey, area pans, walk-to map, area plat maps. iowaz@swbell.net

Roberson Family Cem, Salt River Twp, Pike Co, Missouri, has only a few markers left, with all being displaced or down. The cemetery has been used as a cattle bedding grounds for years. Basically the ...more

cemetery has been destroyed. iowaz@swbell.net