See Zumwalt's Fort and the Heald Home

St. Louis Historic Sites History Meetup Last went: 2019 Will go again: 2033 Cost: $5 PARKING: DIRECTIONS: Side Entrance Fort Zumwalt Park From I-70 take exit 217 (Hwy. K & M). Turn south on Hwy K and then (right) on Veteran’s Memorial Pkwy. At the first stoplight turn (left) on South Woodlawn Ave. Make an immediate (right) onto Plackemeier. The service entrance to Fort Zumwalt Park is one block on the (right). When you get to the road to the park, make a left and you can park in the parking lot of the Heald Home or along the road. The docents will meet you there and begin the tour. The group will split in two. Half will see Zumwalt's Fort first, and half will see the Heald Home first. Then the two groups will switch. Zumwalt's Fort: "At about the same time that Daniel Boone arrived, Jacob Zumwalt and his extended family settled in the O’Fallon area circa 1798, building a large log home. A few years later, when the War of 1812 set off deadly guerilla raids with Native Americans ambushing and killing American settlers, local families fled to the shelter provided by the Zumwalt’s home, which is said to have been fortified with a stockade fence. A spring, which is now Lake Whetsel, supplied water. Zumwalt’s Fort, as the fortified house came to be called, was one of 35-plus “settler forts” that once stood in Missouri. Boone’s Fort at present-day Matson, Missouri, was the largest." from https://www.ofallon.mo.us/zumwalts-fort Heald Home: "Darius Heald, a prominent figure in O’Fallon’s history, built the stately brick home circa 1884-1886 on his farm of about 1,000 acres, which he called “Stoney Point Plantation. The Heald Home’s architectural style is German-Italianate-Victorian, with hipped-roof construction and economical coal-burning fireplaces, which have been converted to gas." from https://www.ofallon.mo.us/heald-home