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Charleston Dogwood-Azalea Festival

Charleston, MO · Festival

When

April 16–18, 2027

Where

Downtown Charleston · Charleston · MO

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Charleston's signature spring festival fills downtown with a parade, carnival, and a 5K race timed to the Bootheel's dogwood and azalea bloom. It has run for more than 55 years, and the 2027 edition marks its 59th.

The history within reach

• Charleston Dogwood-Azalea Festivalsame spot

  Charleston's signature spring festival fills downtown with a parade, carnival, and a 5K race timed to the Bootheel's dogwood and azalea bloom.

• The sharecroppers camp on Highway 610.2 mi

  Landowners taking federal cotton payments began evicting sharecroppers to keep the money, so Owen Whitfield, a Black preacher, organised over a thousand families, Black and white together, to move their bedding and children onto the roadside of Highways 60 and 61 in January where the whole country would drive past.

• Magnolia Manor11 mi

  Fourteen rooms of Italianate brick built by a flour merchant who made his money supplying the Union army, with double walls and a cupola over the river.

• The levee blown to save Cairo11 mi

  With the river at a record height and the Cairo floodwall close to failing, the Corps of Engineers pumped explosive slurry into the Birds Point levee and opened it, flooding a hundred and thirty thousand acres of Missouri farmland to drop the gauge across the river.

• The town Dickens and Twain both used11 mi

  Dickens came down the Ohio in 1842, found a mud flat being sold to English investors as a coming metropolis, and put it in Martin Chuzzlewit as Eden, the paradise that turns out to be a swamp where the agent has left.