Cobblestone Street (Boonville, Missouri)
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Cobblestone Street, also known as Fifth Street and Main Street, is a historic
cobblestone Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings. Setts, also called Belgian blocks, are often casually referred to as "cobbles", although a sett is distinct fro ...
street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...
located at Boonville, Cooper County, Missouri. It was built about 1832, and was part of the original Fifth or Main Street. It is located beneath the Boonville Road Bridge and is constructed of cobblestones of varying sizes. The street remnant is approximately 20 feet wide and approximately 200 feet long. The street connected the main commercial district of Boonville with the wharves along the Missouri River.] (includes 3 photos from 1988) It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1990.


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Roads on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Transport infrastructure completed in 1832 National Register of Historic Places in Cooper County, Missouri Cobbled streets Transportation in Cooper County, Missouri 1832 establishments in Missouri Boonville, Missouri {{CooperCountyMO-NRHP-stub