National Register of Historic Places Listings in Missouri

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“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”
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“Never to walk from the station’s lamps and laurels
Carrying my father’s lean old leather case
Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
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“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
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—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)