A meeting that ultimately kept Missouri in the Union during the Civil War occurred at the Planter's House Hotel on June 11, 1861. Gov. Claiborne Jackson and Gen. Sterling Price, representing secession, met with Col. Nathaniel Lyon and Frank Blair. Lyon rejected a proposal to partition the state resulting in a series of battles in Missouri at Boonville, Lexington, Carthage, and finally Wilson Creek, near Springfield. Governor Benjamin Gratz Brown stayed there on May 3, 1871 (see image of hotel bill).