New History of Washington, Missouri, Told Through Photographs

Local authors team up again on new book

Foreword by Marc Houseman, Museum Director, Washington Historical Society

The newest addition to Arcadia Publishing’s popular Images of America series is Washington from local authors Dianna Graveman and Don Graveman with the Washington Historical Society. With the assistance of Marc Houseman and others, the Gravemans have assembled a broad, pictorial history of Washington with more than 200 vintage images.

Washington is famous for its early industry: John B. Busch established his brewery in Washington and bottled the very first Busch beer before his younger brother, Adolphus, began his business in St. Louis. Franz Schwarzer, an Austrian immigrant, began manufacturing what would become his world-famous zithers—stringed musical instruments typically found at that time in Austria, Hungary, and southern regions of Germany—in Washington in 1867. And between 1900 and 1925, there were as many as twelve corn cob pipe companies in Franklin County—most in Washington—earning the town its designation as “Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World.”

Today, Washington holds the state record for the most buildings on the National Register of historic places, with 445 buildings that carry that designation.

Meet the authors:

July 18th, 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Washington Historical Society

Fourth & Market

Washington, Missouri 63090

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(888)-313-2665.

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