Toonerville, Missouri

[4] Southern St. Charles county gained direct access to the St. Louis area because of the completion of the Daniel Boone Bridge in 1937.

[4] Locals had intended this project to increase opportunities for the county, however it gave the U.S. Army an area in rural Missouri, to develop weapons for the anticipated WWII.

[4] In October 1940, the local newspapers had announced that the U.S. Army was going to take 17,000 acres of land through eminent domain and that the townspeople who inhabited these areas had three months to vacate their homes.

[4] The Weldon Springs Ordnance Works, operated by Atlas Power Company, began production in 1941 employing more than 5,000 people and maintained more than 1,000 buildings.

[5] After selling land to various conservation departments, the United States Atomic Energy Commission retained 2,000 acres to build a uranium ore processing plant in 1955.

In 2001, the completion on the gargantuan structure covers roughly 45 acres and stores 1.5 million cubic yards of hazardous waste material.

[6] Visitors can take the stairs that lead to its peak, where there is a viewing platform and plaques that provide information on the local area, its history, and the construction of the waste preserving site.