Civil War museum at Jefferson Barracks bustling with final touches for opening
After a sweaty decade of shoveling pigeon droppings and replacing rotted woodwork, the steadfast creators of a new Civil War museum at Jefferson Barracks County Park are in frenzied final assembly of display cases and exhibits.
“I wish we had another six months, but it’s time to open,” said Mark Trout, founding director of the Missouri Civil War Museum. Its home is a thoroughly renovated three-story building left over from the old Army base in south St. Louis County.
On Friday, County Executive Charlie Dooley joined Trout in a ceremonial ribbon-cutting on the front steps. The museum is to open June 29.
“You had an idea and a dream, and you have created a real destination,” Dooley told the gathering.
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