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On the corner of Main Street and High Street sits a building owned by the Geiger family and currently occupied by the recently closed Riverside Diner. Facing the river one artist's rendering of Boonville, Missouri's heritage.

Completed in 1993 by Rocheport artist Peggy Guest, the mural depicts important scenes and characters from the city's history. Hannah Cole, founder of Boonville, stands tall and proud in the center of the mural. She is flanked by Daniel Boone and Fort Cooper.

The Missouri River runs across the bottom of the mural and the Ida Bell floats atop it towards the Katy Bridge. A small sign in the lower left corner pays tribute to the flood that reached roughly 37 feet in the year of the painting's birth.

The above information was taken from the July 25, 2014 edition of the Boonvile Daily News. You can read the full article here. In the article they talk about the possibility of restoring the mural.

This photo was taken July 5, 2008 and I can only imagine how much more it faded the next nine years.

This is the only information I could find as to the fate of the mural. It sounds like it is going to be redone on another surface and moved in 2020. Lots to look at in this mural. I apologize for the quality of the photo. It was taken with my first digital camera. A Kodak DX4530.