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The Chance House and Gardens is a historic home and garden located at Centralia, Missouri. The house was built in 1904, and is a two-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling on a raised brick basement. It features a broad verandah and porte cochere. The formal gardens were added in 1937. The house was purchased by Albert Bishop Chance in 1923. [2]
Centralia is a city in Boone County in the U.S. state of Missouri. The population was 4,541 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] with an estimated population of 4,244 in 2018. [ 5 ] A very small portion of the city lies in Audrain County .
Albert Bishop Chance (1873–1949) was a businessman and the inventor of the first practical earth anchor. [1] He founded the A.B. Chance Company in 1907 in his hometown of Centralia, Missouri, where he would also become mayor [2] He invented the earth anchor after an ice storm knocked down his parents' company's telephone lines.
Location of Boone County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boone County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boone County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Centralia broke it down to the same motto it had been repeating all week: “Anyone but them." Here's how Jesse Caballero played that into existence.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
This is a list of cemeteries in Boone County, Missouri including the county seat of Columbia as well as the towns of Ashland, Centralia, Hallsville, Sturgeon, Rocheport and Harrisburg. [1] The county contains over 260 known cemeteries.
The Centralia Massacre was an incident during the American Civil War in which 24 unarmed U.S. Army soldiers were captured and executed in Centralia, Missouri, on September 27, 1864, by a band of men under the command of the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Future outlaw Jesse James was among the guerrillas.