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The home of Greg and Laura Nitcher will be new to the Lexington Historic Homes Tour this year.
H istory is everywhere in Lexington, Missouri. It’s in the small businesses that line the town’s picturesque Main Street. It’s on the tongues of its residents. It’s in the swirling waters of the Missouri River, through which steamboats snaked in the mid-19th century. It’s even literally embedded in part of the town’s courthouse, displayed proudly for all to see. A cannonball, a stark, black speck lodged into one of the white columns of the building, remains a constant reminder of the aftermath of the 1861 Battle of Lexington, both a turning point in the early months of the Civil War and now a major tourism draw for the town of 4,700. But nowhere is Lexington’s history as proudly touted as in the homes of its resi- dents, a selection of whom will participate in Lexington’s 64th annual Historic Homes Tour, Sept. 9 and 10. Sponsored by the Lexington Tourism Bureau, the event will feature homes that will be familiar to veteran visitors, as well as a couple of new homes, chosen in part due to the recent restoration efforts of their rela- tively new owners. Two of the houses new to the tour appear on the National Register of Historic Places. HOMES TOUR TO BRING HISTORY TO LIFE Words CORBIN CRABLE Photos SILAS COOK
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