Price Park

From the late nineteenth century, the city block that became Price Park was the site of the Chariton County jail.

[1] The park plat—circa 0.6-acre (2,400 m2)—was eventually purchased by a group of "progressive women", who conveyed it to the local chapter of the United Confederate Veterans, who in turn, in 1915, transferred title to the city of Keytesville.

[3] In 1911, a campaign by Missouri state representative John D. Taylor (1883–1943),[4] acting at the behest of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and other locally prominent women, resulted in a state appropriation of $5,000 to erect a monument to commemorate Sterling Price (1809–1867), a Mexican–American War hero, Missouri governor, and Confederate major general who had owned a hotel and mercantile business in Keytesville from the early 1830s.

[7] According to Newman's son, the sculptor had noted a man on a New York City street who he felt had the bearing and figure to be a general.

[11] In 1993, a stone and plaque memorializing the Potawatomi Trail of Death, which passed through Keytesville in 1838, was dedicated in Price Park.