Join us for a walking tour focusing on early industry and community water sources in this 200-year-old city. Your tour guide, Stephen Bybee, will lead the group to various sites in Columbia that once featured mineral springs, wells, cisterns, and early livery stables, flouring mills and blacksmith shops. The tour will last approximately 1.5 mile, 1.5 hours and will meander from the bridge in Flat Branch Park, to the historic Tiger Hotel, from Peace Park to the historic corner of Ninth and Cherry Street. This walking tour will largely be confined to sidewalks, streets, and alleyways, but there is an optional walk across a grassy slope on the MU campus. Our tour group will meet on the bridge in Flat Branch Park. Stephen Bybee is an amateur historian and serves as the presiding chair of the Columbia Historic Preservation Commission. He also serves as Director of Missouri Conservation Corps, an environmental nonprofit operating in Columbia.

Tickets are $10 per person.

Thank you to Veterans United Foundation for their generous support!