The Webber Homestead

John Webber established the first homestead in what is now the city of Rolla on this site about 1845. The one and one-half story, single-room log cabin he built stood just north of the site, and the cover over Webber's water well is the only remaining feature of Rolla's first residence. The commission that located the Phelps County seat at Rolla in 1857 used Webber's cabin as a meeting place, and his homestead was included within Rolla when the city was created in 1861. Webber lived here until 1880, when he moved to southern Phelps County, where he died in 1889.

Rolla, Missouri · United States