Park Information
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 our Park and Site Status Map.
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 a Laclede country boy into one of the nation’s legendary generals. Pershing and his family moved into the nine-room Gothic-style house in 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.
