Tour Cape Girardeau, Missouri: 5 Unique Driving Tours

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Tour Cape Girardeau, Missouri: 5 Unique Driving Tours

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Cape Girardeau has been the location for many historical and cultural events with over 250 years of town history. One great way to discover and explore these significant events is to head out on a driving tour through the town. The city offers a variety of driving tours that cover topics from history and the past to culture and modern events. With over five different tours, each drive will take visitors around the city to various historical sites relating to the topic of the tour. From the Civil War to modern literature and film adaptations, learn something new about Cape’s history on these easy and accessible tours.

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Steeped in history with its location on the Mississippi River, Cape Girardeau has a range of historical driving tours covering topics of historical significance within the town. Two great historical tours include the Civil War Tour and the Exploring Lewis and Clark Tour. The Civil War Tour will take you to over 12 historical sites including Fort D, the site of the Battle of Cape Girardeau, the smallpox hospital at the Minton House, and more. The Lewis and Clark Tour explores Lewis and Clark’s historic trail from when they first entered the Missouri territory in 1803. These educational and exciting tours will take you back in time to several different periods and help you understand the events and history of Cape Girardeau.

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Set during the late 1800s, the African American History Tour guides drivers through the world of Cape Girardeau during this time. The area has a rich African American history and will take you to a range of significant churches, squares, schools, and homes. Some spots include Ivers Square, Second Missionary Baptist Church, and St. James AME. This tour has outdoor sites that you can see from your car, as well as tours you can go and explore on foot.

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The popular novel Gone Girl by author Gillian Flynn was adapted into a film in 2013, and Cape Girardeau became the set for the Missouri based story. The Gone Girl Driving Tour will take fans to the various filming locations around town to see what the filming process was like while the cast and crew were in town. The tour will also provide information about behind the scenes and cast and crew favorites. Fans can enjoy seeing the actual locations from scenes in the movie and the book while driving around on this tour.

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Rush Limbaugh Hometown Tour

The late Rush Limbaugh, a radio talk show host in the 1980s was born and raised in Cape Girardeau. The Rush Limbaugh Hometown driving tour will take you past fixtures of his life growing up in and around the town. Locations include the hospital where he was born and his childhood home, his school, and the radio station where he first started his radio career.

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