Weston History

For Weston’s 175th year, citizens and volunteers from the City, the Chamber and the Weston Historical Museum created a panel timeline that is a visitor favorite. there’s so much more […]

The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign of Weston The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign is a standing committee of the Weston Historical Museum VISION To increase visibility in permanent exhibits, changing galleries, […]

Weston Patriotism Weston’s citizens joined the United States’ call to arms in World Wars I and II. Parades demonstrated patriotism, and anxious families made the requisite sacrifices at home. Weston […]

Slavery to Freedom – End of the River Trade -Agricultural Adaptation Slavery to Freedom With the end of the Civil War, Missouri was finally a free state. The journey of […]

Weston, Missouri’s early settlement in 1837—its steamboat and overland commerce as a force in westward expansion, plus its location on the river bordering the free state Kansas— put it in […]

From Weston- Queen of the Platte Purchase 1837-1900 by Mrs. B.J. Bless, Jr., a noted and award-winning journalist Published by The Weston Chronicle, September 1969  Excerpt from Chapter 1 With […]

“The Missouri Indians first came to the attention of Europeans through the account left from the Louis Joliet expedition in 1673. They were not newcomers to the present-day Platte County […]

Riverboats The earliest steamboats passed by the bend in the river that was to become Weston, MO (in 1837) on their way north to multiple posts of the American Fur […]