Boone's Lick Road - Boone County, MO, USA
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A series of pink marble markers erected by the State DAR, on the stagecoach route called "Boonslick Road", or Boone's Lick Road, or Booneslick Road. Street signs, and markers, carry all three versions of the name along the route
Waymark Code: WM1A26W
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 06/06/2024
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County of Marker: Boone County
Location of Marker: MO Hwy WW, 2 miles W. Millersburg
Marker Erected by: Daughters of the American Revolution and the State of Missouri
Date marker Erected: 1913
"Vivion's Stage Stand was one of the stage stops along the Boone's Lick Road and was located about four miles west of Millersburg. In order to accommodate passengers, roadside taverns increased in number as the stagecoach travel increased. Post offices were sometimes part of the accommodations. The post office was usually a box or a desk pigeonhole, with the postmaster being the tavern keeper. The marker is located 2.4 miles west of Millersburg on the south side of Highway WW." ~ Boonslick Road
"Boone County, astride the Boon’s Lick Trail and also situated along the north bank of the Missouri River, had a sizable portion of these early taverns. Nine and a half miles east of Columbia, on the old Fulton Gravel Road, was Vivion’s Taverns, a stage stop. Five miles west of Columbia, near present Highway 70, was the Ishmael Van Horn Tavern. Several miles north of Rocheport was the tavern of Augustus Thrall. These three hostelries were on the St. Charles-Old Franklin land route." ~ Boone County History
More About JOHN GHOLSON VIVION:
Burial: Millersburg, Boone County, Missouri
A Charles Cotton, descendent of Adm. William C. Robnett, married Flaniann Vivion, about 1847 Boone County, MO.
From the 1840 census: Boone Couty, MO:
W. H. VIVION, b. Abt. 1827, Missouri.
LOUISA VIVION, b. Abt. 1830, Missouri.
MARY VIVION, b. Abt. 1834, Missouri.
ELIZA VIVION, b. Abt. 1835, Missouri.
ROBERT R. VIVION, b. Abt. 1837, Missouri; m. ELIZABETH J. MILLER, May 27, 1858, Callaway County, Missouri; b. Bef. 1844.
DAVID C. VIVION, b. Abt. 1839, Missouri.
SARAH ANN VIVION, b. Abt. 1842, Missouri; m. COLUMBUS BOONE, October 24, 1869, Boone County, Missouri; b. Abt. 1840, Tennessee.
Mr. Willison wrote in March 1918, "I can stand in my barnyard and see the spot where ..... Columbia road to Millersburg and Fulton; kept a stage stand. ... Abt. 1827, Missouri.