A community partnership made up of the Jefferson City Arts Foundation, local artists, city government elected officials, the Cole County Historical Society, the Historic City of Jefferson, and local business owners have the vision to bring significant areas of Jefferson City back to life using an audio/visual walking tour app.  

Anyone with a smartphone will be able to enter a portal oh history to see and hear about the intriguing historical details of a given site in Jefferson City. The first sites to be included in the tour will be the Capitol Avenue historic area of stately homes and business. Several of the once magnificent mansions colorful pasts will be chronicled artistically through narration and some video. Local actors, historians, and videographers will work together to create and video “mini” plays for each home which will highlight one or more scripted scenes depicting past residents. The historically accurate narrations will be available through an app in the app store with an integrated map and route to follow. At that point, a researched and dramatized day in the life will be depicted through narration, picture, and video. 

This same approach will be used with additional locations, events, and persons of past significance throughout the city. Areas to be highlighted include Old Munichburg, The Foot, the original Warwick Village area and other eastside sites, Moreau Drive, memorial sites, art installations, downtown JC government buildings, and other famous Jefferson City tourist attractions.

The app creator, Historic Walking Tours, will help in every step of the way and maintain the app. The developer has several other sites across the states including New York, North Carolina, and Boston, and with two international sites in Quebec and Montreal.