OPENS MAY 1 A Day Trip Back In Time

MEDIEVAL CASTLE UNDER CONSTRUCTION IN BOONE COUNTY

By Becca Bacon Martin

Friday, April 23, 2010

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Workers have come from as far away as France to create a 13th century castle from stone quarried on site near Lead Hill (above). The project also includes a cedar Motte & Bailey keep, a blacksmith’s shop and a “squirrel cage” or medieval crane (right). On the front, Franck Falgairette, a stone cutter from France, shapes a block of sandstone.

Workers have come from as far away as France to create a 13th century castle from stone quarried on site near Lead Hill (above). The project also includes a cedar Motte & Bailey keep, a blacksmith’s shop and a “squirrel cage” or medieval crane (right). On the front, Franck Falgairette, a stone cutter from France, shapes a block of sandstone.
Photo by Antoinette Grajeda

None of the ordinary construction noises echo through the trees. Instead, the rugged Ozark landscape is quiet - with the exception of trilling birds, buzzing bees, fluttering butterflies and the shouts of workers chipping and fitting stones, hammering iron and encouraging a horse on its daily rounds.

It’s an idyllic setting, perfect for a fairy tale. All Cinderella has to do is wait for her castle to be completed.

That will take a while. The Ozark Medieval Fortress, being built outside Lead Hill in Boone County, is on a 20-year plan.

Ground was broken in June 2009, and by mid-April, the castle walls were about 3 feet tall. When it’s finished, the full-size, fortified keep - based on traditions from ...

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