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 so visit the Museum to see the exhibits, the photos, the stories that created the Weston you can visit today The five large panels are…

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, archives, and yearlong programming honoring Weston’s Black history and an annual Juneteenth Jubilee to enhance the value, legacy, and charm of historic Weston. MISSION To…

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 participated in Korea, Vietnam, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, and more. Today, a marker at the entrance to the Post Office commemorates Weston’s veterans in war and…

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 free African American citizens took most of the former slaves from Weston, where the economy was changing without their forced labor, to greater opportunities throughout…

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 the bulls-eye of the pre-Civil War Border conflicts. Weston was the second largest Missouri riverport after St. Louis. As in most parts of the United…

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 reasonable credibility it is assumed that as early as 1819 a small settlement of Frenchmen, probably from Kickapoo, across the Missouri from Weston, had located…

“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 area since it is estimated that Native Americans had occupied the area since the 12th century. In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition passed by…

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 Trading Company. Those first boats took supplies north and returned to St. Louis with furs. By 1840 steamboats regularly stopped in Weston. At its busiest,…