Pratt's Addition and the East Campus Neighborhood
On Jan. 3, 1905, the Pratt Family (George, Georgina, J.K., and Charles) registered the addition of eighteen large lots to the City of Columbia in what is now known as the East Campus Neighborhood. The Pratt Addition is a small, but early, part of the East Campus Neighborhood, notable for it’s early twentieth century suburban architecture.
Academic Hall and Civil War
On January 2nd, 1862, the 2nd Missouri Cavalry Regiment, commonly known as “Merrill's Horse” arrived in Columbia and pitched their tents on the University of Missouri campus. Merrill established a permanent Union headquarters in Academic Hall, whose six columns famously survive in the middle of Francis Quadrangle, a National Historic District.
The Herald Newspaper and E.W. Stephens
On January 1st, 1871, the Columbia, Missouri Herald newspaper was first published by Edwin William Stephens. In 1892 the Herald Building would be erected on the southwest corner of Hitt and Broadway. In 1904 it was Columbia’s largest business and employed 100 people.
