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  • An ‘Evening at Oakwood’ Plantation July 16

    Everyone is welcome to join members of the Boonslick Historical Society July 16 for an “Evening at Oakwood,” the Fayette antebellum home built in 1834-36 by Abiel Leonard, Yankee Slaveholder, eminent jurist, and passionate Unionist. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. Missouri historian James M. (Jim) Denny, who drafted the official Nomination to place Oakwood…

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