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Cedar City, Missouri

Jefferson City metropolitan areaUnincorporated communities in Callaway County, MissouriUnincorporated communities in MissouriUse mdy dates from July 2023

Cedar City is a former incorporated city in southern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. It is located on the Missouri River floodplain across the river channel from Jefferson City and is near the interchange of U.S. Routes 54 and 63. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. Cedar City was platted in 1866 and is named after the eastern redcedar tree. David Kenney, owner of the Cedar City Land Company petitioned to have the community incorporated in 1870. It existed as a city until 1989, when the city merged into Jefferson City. The population of the city before the merger was reported as 427 in the 1980 Decennial Census. Flooding of the Missouri River in 1993 inundated the entire community and virtually all the homeowners were bought out by the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA). Most of the area of the former city now consists of parks and businesses. A post office called Cedar City has been in operation since 1870.

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Cedar City, Missouri
3rd Street, Jefferson City

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65101 Jefferson City
Missouri, United States
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Missouri State Museum
Missouri State Museum

The Missouri State Museum is Missouri's showpiece museum. It was founded in 1919 and is located in Jefferson City, Missouri, inside the state capitol on the ground floor of the building.The museum's mission is to explore Missouri's history and resources to discover connections that inspire the present and enrich the future. Visitors will find a variety of cultural and natural history exhibits including temporary exhibits, stationary exhibits, traveling exhibits, and hands-on and audio interactive. The museum offers a variety of free in-house public programming, outreach programming and traveling exhibits geared toward all ages and audiences. The museum has over 30,000 artifacts in its collection, including the largest collections of Missouri Civil War battle flags and World War I flags.The history wing of the museum was originally the only part of the museum and is now in the eastern wing of the capitol building. In 1921, the Missouri Resources Museum was founded and placed in the wing directly opposite the state museum in the west wing of the capitol. The two merged in 1923 to form the Missouri State Museum. The museum was controlled by a variety of state agencies until 1978. In that year the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) took control of the museum where it has remained ever since. It is now part of DNR's Division of State Parks. The museum staff also provides tours of the capitol building itself.