Special Use Campground

Guided tours of the Pershing Boyhood Home are unavailable until further notice due to a construction project. For more information, please call the site office at 660-963-2525. For a complete list of closures and advisories, please visit ourPark and Site Status Map(link is external). Explore a piece of America’s military history at Gen. John J. Pershing Boyhood Home State Historic Site and learn about the experiences that molded aLacledecountry boy into one of the nation’s legendary generals. Pershing and his family moved into the nine-room Gothic-stylehousein Laclede when he was 6.Prairie Mound School, where Pershing taught prior to his admission to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, is also on the site and includes a unique exhibit that allows visitors to pass through many of the same doorways Pershing passed through on his journeys from Missouri to Mexico and France.