Weston Black Heritage Walking & Driving Tour
Tour Sites
- Halfway House
- Locust Grove Farm
- Site of Aaron Busey Home
- Site of Ben & Notley Ann Holladay Home
- Wells’ Grove
- Site of George Washington Ellis Home
- Second Missionary Baptist Church
- Site of James and Annie Spotts Williams Home
- Laurel Hill Cemetery-Colored Section
- Weston Historical Museum
- Site of Transitional Housing
- Woodbine House
- Second Missionary Baptist Church
- Willow Bend
- African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
- Hulse Home
- Presbyterian Church
- Home of Mabel Emery & George Bell
- Mariah Dayton Vaughn Property
- Thomas Street Alley
- Mariah Dayton Vaughn Home
- Mary McLeod Bethune School
- Dinah and Thomas Robinson Home
- Site of Renz Livery Stables
- Twin-gabled building
- St George Hotel lobby
- Slave Market
- Alley Entrance to William D and Sawney Vaughn’s Restaurant
- Dinah Robinson Courtyard
- United Methodist Church
1. Halfway House, Vaughn Lane (originally Toll Road between Platte City and Weston). Tavern and Hotel, owned by abolitionist German immigrant Johann Floersch from 1843-1851. William Tooms, a freedman, worked for Floersch for a wage. Floersch’s neighbor, proslaver Major Hall L.Wilkerson, died in an altercation for which Floersch was accused and died in prison. In a dramatic turn, the Halfway House, signed over to Wilkerson’s attorneys, became a holding house for the enslaved. The road now called Vaughn Lane is the remaining portion of the original Toll Road between Platte City and Weston.
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Pirtle Winery
Weston Historical Museum
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Dinah Robinson Courtyard
Dinah Robinson Courtyard
Weston Chamber of Commerce
Dinah Robinson Courtyard
United Methodist Church
