TOURISM BROCHURES OF REGION AVAILABLE

As summer travel season begins, the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission is offering full-color tourism brochures to travel and visitor centers throughout the region.

The "Historic Treasures" brochure looks at the history and heritage of the region, showing the Spanish and French colonial influences as well as the architecture such civilizations inspired.

A Civil War brochure offers information about battles in the region and the impacts they had on residents.

The Trail of Tears brochure traces the path Native Americans took as they traveled through Southeast Missouri. A map shows historic sites and other related events.

Copies of the brochures are available free of charge from the commission for businesses and organizations to use. Call the commission at (573) 547-8357 or write the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission at P.O. Box 366, Perryville, Mo. 63775.