Marybeth Niederkorn
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Marybeth Niederkorn is the director of the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson.
otherMay 31
Back in Time Column: Shady Grove CemeteryIn 1891, a cemetery was deeded to three trustees at the junction of two of the largest slaveholding estates in Cape Girardeau County, near present-day Dutchtown. Here, much of Cape Girardeau County’s Black population took control of their burial rituals and their c...
featuresMay 4
Cards from the wallOne of my favorite aspects of my job as director of the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson is what I call the “show and tell” of it. So often, we’ll get a phone call or visit from someone who found “some neat old thing”, and they want us to see it. We ...
featuresMarch 30
History repeats itselfIt happened the same way it always does. I was in the County Commission Minutes index book at the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson, researching a simple question -- when was the Cape Special Road District formed? -- and stumbled into a whole other st...
featuresFebruary 24
Holy Family Catholic ChurchToo often, Black history is thought of as something to be celebrated only in February, with Martin Luther King Jr.'s rousing speech rightly at the forefront. The Civil Rights movement and slavery are far from the entire story, though. February is Black History Mont...
otherFebruary 5
Find a Wealth of Local History at the Cape Girardeau County Archive CenterA brown brick building sits across Highway 61 from the county’s Administrative Building and the courthouse dedicated in 1908. It’s the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center, and from its architecture and dark-tinted windows, you might think it’s not a place to visit...
featuresJanuary 20
History speaks through WPA narrativesIf you know about the Work Projects Administration, or WPA, you likely know it was part of the New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt's program to get Americans working again in the wake of the Great Depression. The WPA is probably most strongly associated with pub...
featuresDecember 16
Albeit, handwriting isn't always easy to readOur journey begins on a rainy October morning at the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson. The usual road noise is absent because Highway 61 is closed for construction in front of the building. Two new volunteers are working on a project to create an upd...
featuresOctober 7
LaPierre's patents"Have you ever seen a federal patent?" the Jackson Heritage Association's collection archivist, Cathi Stoverink, asked me that very question earlier this week, and I had to admit I had not, so she handed me a folio containing United States patents in the name of Cr...LOAD MORE
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