Visit the Arnold Historical Society Museum - 11am

Last went: 2022
Will go again: 2031
Cost is $5.

I am checking to see if we can get in earlier (at least 11am). The museum does not open until noon. Depending on the number who sign up, we may split the group into two and come at two different start times. (11am and 11:45am OR noon and 12:45).

"Arnold is the largest city in Jefferson County, Missouri.... The first European settler in Arnold was Jean Baptiste Gamache, who operated a ferry boat across the Meramec River in exchange for 1050 arpents of land granted by the King of Spain. This ferry was on the King's Trace or El Camino Real, from St. Louis to Ste. Genevieve, Missouri." from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold,_Missouri

"The community was named for Louis Arnold, a landowner. In 1825 the Arnold area was sparsely populated and nameless. Major land owners, mostly French, began to see tracts of their land.... Settlers also arrived from England, France, and Ireland, but most new arrivals came from Germany.
"Arnold's first highway for trading and industrial shipping {was} the Meremac River.
"After the Civil War and opening of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railroad the area began to grow steadily." from Arnoldmo.org