G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive
In the presence of 250 persons on Oct. 12, 1947, a cross was unveiled at the point on Highway 61 where it is intersected by Cape LaCroix Creek. The cross memorializes the erection of a cross at the creek's mouth by French missionaries in 1699.
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