Kansas City Region
Weston is a preserved Missouri River town
Weston was a booming 1800s river port and tobacco town that the Missouri River later left behind, leaving an unusually intact historic district and a nearby state park.
Weston, in northwest Platte County, was a thriving Missouri River port and tobacco-trade town in the mid-1800s before the river shifted course and the railroads and Civil War changed its fortunes. What it left behind is an unusually intact historic district, plus a long-running winery and a tobacco heritage. Nearby Weston Bend State Park overlooks the Missouri River. For a visitor or new resident the town is a well-preserved window into the river-trade era of northwest Missouri. The State Historical Society and Missouri State Parks are reliable anchors for the history and the park.
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