Jefferson City, Missouri, United States
Jefferson City— A Historical Walking Tour
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Jefferson City sits on a bluff above the Missouri River, and from the moment you arrive it is clear that this is a city that takes its own history seriously. Chosen as Missouri's permanent capital in 1826, it has spent two centuries accumulating the kind of layered, complicated, deeply human story that rewards slow, attentive walking. This tour gathers the most significant threads of that story into a single experience — government and commerce, tragedy and resilience, the p…
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Stops on this tour
- Missouri State Capitol
- St. Peter Catholic Church
- Lewis and Clark Monument
- Union Hotel
- Jefferson City Train Station
- Jefferson Landing State Historic Site
- Carnahan Memorial Garden
- Missouri Governor's Mansion
- Missouri State Penitentiary
- Cole County Courthouse
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