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Weston Historic District

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St. George Hotel, Weston, MO
St. George Hotel, Weston, MO

Weston Historic District is a national historic district located at Weston, Platte County, Missouri. The district encompasses 16 full blocks and portions of 8 additional city blocks in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Weston. It developed between about 1840 and 1920, and includes representative examples of Federal and Late Victorian style architecture. Notable buildings include the John Maitland Home (c. 1860), Humphrey House, Railey Brothers Banking Building, Hull Mill, Methodist Church (1868), old Presbyterian Church (1846), German Evangelical Lutheran Church (1867), Weston Baptist Church or Weston Historical Museum and Library Building(1902), and McGhay House.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

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Bee Creek Massacre

The Bee Creek Massacre occurred in December 1861, when Union Army troops of the 18th Missouri Infantry Regiment summarily executed two Confederate prisoners of war. Southern bushwhacker Silas M. Gordon had been operating out of Platte County, Missouri for several months before regional Federal military authorities attempted to capture him and his followers. In November 1861, two Federal soldiers were killed near the Bee Creek Bridge, a few miles north of Weston, Missouri. By mid-December, elements of the 18th Missouri Infantry had seized neighboring Platte City and captured three Confederate soldiers: Black Triplett, Gabriel Close, and William Kuykendall. The captives were either on furlough or had returned home after their enlistment ended. In his history of Platte County, W. M. Paxton, a resident, related that he spoke to the 18th Missouri's colonel, W. James Morgan, asking on behalf of Triplett's father that he be allowed to speak with his son. Morgan's reply was, "Yes, God damn him! Let him say now what he pleases, for he will never see him alive again." Morgan took Triplett and Close near Bee Creek Bridge. Triplett stood and was shot. Close, with his arms bound, fled to the nearby creek bed, where he quickly became mired in the mud. A Federal soldier descended upon him and bayoneted him to death. The letters "U.S." were scrawled in Triplett's blood on the bridge. The third prisoner, William Kuykendall, was spared.