Experience History Like Never Before

Anheuser-Busch building front facade.

Anheuser-Busch Building

Discover over ten rooms filled with captivating exhibits that bring Henry County's history to life.

From famous music personalities to the bravery of the military, the innovations of agriculture to the depths of coal mining, the challenges of cooking at the turn of the 20th century to the charm of relaxing in a Victorian living room, there's something for everyone to spark a fresh appreciation for the past.

Bethlehem Church stained-glass panel.

Bethlehem Baptist Church

  • Lords Prayer carved out of a single piece of walnut

  • Pews

  • Pump organ

  • Stained glass panel

Children’s Room circa Late 1800s

Childrens room bear.

  • Child-size chairs

  • Doll carriage collection

  • Doll collection

  • Toy sewing machines

Coal miner's hat and photo of coal miners.

Coal Mining Exhibit

  • Scaled model of an excavating machine

  • 1800s mining tools

  • Photographs

Kitchen circa Early 1900s

  • Coal-burning stove by St Claire Stoves & Ranges

  • Flat irons

  • Hand-pump vacuum cleaner by Hugro Mfg. Co. of Chicago

  • Icebox

  • Spinning wheel

  • Tomato grinder

  • Treadle sewing machine by Singer Sewing Machine Co.

Military Room

  • Ammunition display boards

  • Flags: Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, 48-Star American, 1821 Missouri. 1940s German Nazi Party

  • Military gear: Hats, helmets, boots, medals, trunks, WWII spent canon shell trench art

  • Uniforms: Civil War, WWI & WWII, Vietnam, Desert Storm

Music Room

  • Jane Froman: Actress and singer

  • Wayne King: Big band leader

  • Bettye Miller, Jazz queen

  • Gladys Swarthout: Opera singer

  • Courtney Thomas: Opera singer and world travels collection

  • Musical instruments

  • Anheuser-Busch memorabilia

  • Period clocks

  • Victorian living room furniture

Victorian headboard.

Victorian Bedroom & Parlor

  • Victorian bedroom furniture circa 1870-1890 (also known as Eastlake-style furniture): wardrobe, headboard, dry sink, dresser, night stand

  • Spinning wheel

  • Button hooks

  • Avery family history

  • Square grand piano circa 1874-1875

  • Black marble fireplace from William Crome home on 2nd Street

  • Edison phonograph circa early 1900s

  • Painting by local artist Ann Britts

  • Parlor safe from the Dorman house

  • Period furnishings

Henry County Communities (second floor)

Henry County

Framed assortment of Indian arrowheads.

  • Early Henry County Courthouse photos

  • Gene Gray's gun collection: rifles, shotguns, revolvers, pistols, holsters

  • Heart of the Golden Valley, Clinton, Missouri, commemorative sesquicentennial plate

  • 32-piece mineral collection

  • Church memorabilia, church plates, communion service pieces

  • Confederate States currency

  • Indian artifacts from the Ogalala Sioux, Navaho, and other tribes: arrowheads, spearheads, baskets, blankets, pottery

  • Mastodon tooth

  • School desks and one-room school photos from the 1900s to the 1930s

American Lady Shoe sign from Blairstown Merc Co.

Blairstown

  • American Lady Shoe sign

  • 1931 Blairstown High School class rings

  • Blairstown High School basketball trophies

Brownington

  • Brownington Brick Co.

  • Brownington High School 1938-39 yearbook

  • Old Fashioned Stone Buhr Ground Corn Meal brown paper bags from the Otter Creek Mill

  • State Bank of Brownington 1941 calendar

  • The Brownington Index 1909 advertisement of J.L. Goss, North Side Clothier

Gold pocket watch engraved by P. R. Miller Jewelers.

Calhoun

  • A 1903 photo of “Jas R. Bush,” the editor  of The Calhoun Clarion when he was only a year old

  • American Bicentennial mug from Citizens State Bank of Calhoun

  • Gold pocket watch engraved by P. R. Miller Jewelers, circa early 1900s

  • Jegglin Pottery and Calhoun Pottery

  • Toothpick holder from the Bank of Calhoun promoting the Colt Show

An assortment of pottery made by the Clinton Pottery Company.

Clinton

  • Baird College for Young Ladies circa 1885-1898

  • Brown Mfg. Wooden toys like the boomerang plane sold at Western Auto and other retailers, fireworks, Chinkerchek game

  • Clinton courthouse photos and related items

  • Cozart Hotel service buttons, room key, and guest message shelf

  • Phi Lambda Epsilon, founded by Clinton High School students in 1891

  • Pottery by the Clinton Pottery Company

  • Simes Shoe Store shoes, repair tools

Coal High School Community Hall sign.

Coal

  • Coal High School Community Hall sign, est. 1923

  • Photograph of Coal High School

Cups made at Dickey Clay Mfg.

Deepwater

  • W.S. Dickey Clay Mfg. Co.

  • Block Factory Plant

  • Photograph collection

  • Books

  • Pottery

Image of a gas a Hartwell MO gas station in 1941.

Hartwell

  • Photographs

LaDue

  • Bank of LaDue account book

  • Decorative china pieces made for Pierce & Fox

  • LaDue baseball uniform

Three volume set of Miles of Memories about Montrose MO.

Montrose

  • American Centennial Book 1871-1971

  • Hand fan from Bunch & Bunch shoe store selling Peter’s Shoes

  • McGuffey’s Fifth Eclectic Reader used by student Amanda Edith Johnson May 7, 1874

  • Sheepskin painting by artist Chesley Hull

  • The Montrose Concert Band photo circa 1910

  • Three-volume “Miles of Memories” history of Montrose

  • Wellington Brothers Hardware store 1910 photo

Norris

  • Norris High School basketball trophies

  • Norris High School tournament schedule 1950-1951

  • Norris High School Yearbooks

Photo of Shawnee Mound High School.

Shawnee Mound

  • Shawnee Mound High School photograph

Tightwad

  • Firefighter license plate

  • Newspaper clippings of Tightwad

  • Tightwad Supporter suspenders

  • Volunteer Fire Department uniform

  • Wooden street sign Miser & Stingy

Blue and white Urich baseball uniform.

Urich

  • Urich baseball uniform

  • 104th annual reunion mug

  • 92nd annual reunion 1986 plate

  • Reunion brass plate 1994

  • Reunion hand fans 2001

Railroad lantern.

Windsor

  • Cobbler’s tools

  • International Shoe Company, first pair of shoes manufactured in 1932

  • Railroad lantern made in Rochester NY

  • Tybitha Jones, the official Aunt Jamima image and figurine

  • Charles Stark Draper, father of inertial navigation

  • James William Evans, created the original Cherios formula

  • KATY station information

  • Photo collection

  • Railroad lanterns

Visit Our Other Historic Properties and See Thousands of Artifacts

Select a building to discover what is inside.

Adair Annex and Museum Welcome Center.ade.
Image of the WW&H Exchange building.
Dorman House.
One-room schoolhouse with the US flag.
Dog-trot log house.