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Callaway County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 United States Census, the county's population was 44,283. [1] Its county seat is Fulton. [2] With a border formed by the Missouri River, the county was organized November 25, 1820, and named for Captain James Callaway, grandson of Daniel Boone. [3]
The Missouri State Fair is the state fair for the state of Missouri, which has operated since 1901 in Sedalia, Missouri. It includes daily concerts, exhibits and competitions of animals, homemade crafts, shows, and many food/lemonade stands, and it lasts 11 days. The fairgrounds are located at 2503 W 16th Street on the southwest side of the ...
In 1984, Union Electric's first nuclear energy plant, the Callaway Nuclear Generating Station, began providing 1,143 megawatts of power from Callaway County, Missouri. [2] In 1993, Union Electric battled a 500-year flood in the St. Louis metropolitan area from the swollen Missouri and Mississippi Rivers.
Added to NRHP. May 4, 2015. The Battle of Moore's Mill was an American Civil War battle that took place in Central Missouri on July 28, 1862 along Auxvasse Creek near modern-day Calwood. This engagement, the Battle of Kirksville a week later, and the Battle of Compton's Ferry would drive the main Southern recruiters from northern Missouri.
Missouri Historical Review 35#1 (1940): 25–72; Saeger, Andrew M. "The Kingdom Of Callaway: Callaway County, Missouri, during the Civil War." (MA thesis, Northwest Missouri State University, 2013). bibliography pp 75–81 online; Siddali, Silvana R., ed. Missouri's War: The Civil War in Documents (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2009) 274 pp.
34/sq mi (13/km 2) FIPS code. 29-64010 [2] GNIS feature ID. 0766384. Saint Aubert Township is one of eighteen townships in Callaway County, Missouri, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,969. [3] St. Aubert is an old variant name of Mokane, Missouri.
Born August 31, 1863 in Callaway County, Missouri, Maupin's family supported the northern cause and moved to the Illinois during the American Civil War where his father joined the Union Army. After the war, the family moved back to Missouri, where Maupin was educated until he decided to leave school and start working at the local paper.
History. Calwood Township was established February 23, 1876, [4] carved out of the southwestern sector of a heretofore larger Nine Mile Prairie Township, and named after the community of Calwood, Missouri. [5] Calwood was formerly known as "Moore's Mill", since a steam mill owned by Moore was located there. The Civil War Battle of Moore's Mill ...