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Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site - New Madrid, Missouri From 1860 to 1958 this historic house was owned and lived in by the same family that built it. The white antebellum Hunter-Dawson Home State Historic Site reflects the splendor of the elegant mansions that once were a common site along the “Great River Road,” and represents yet another generation that carved a home out of the rich Bootheel wilderness.  The home houses a beautiful furniture collection.  In southeast Missouri’s Bootheel sits a majestic mansion. William and Amanda Hunter ran successful family enterprises in the thriving Mississippi River town of New Madrid, including a dry goods store and a floating store used to peddle goods to other towns. Descendents of the Hunter family occupied the house continually until 1958. Most of the original furnishings purchased by Amanda Hunter remain, including a large collection of Mitchell and Rammelsberg furniture.