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Callaway County is a county in Missouri, named for James Callaway, grandson of Daniel Boone. It has a history of slavery, Civil War, and winemaking, and is part of the Jefferson City metropolitan area.
Location of Callaway County in Missouri. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Callaway County, Missouri. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Callaway County, Missouri, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
A Native American settlement near here meant "upland forest" in the Osage language. [2] The History of Callaway County by John G. Provines [3] indicates that a patent for a survey of the area was granted in 1800 by the Spanish military government of Louisiana, before transfer to France lasting two years, and indicating that the area had rich soil and abundant fish and game.
History. Historical references to Auxvasse Township are complicated by the fact that, at the time of its founding on February 12, 1821, the Township was about 4 times larger than it is now, and included all of Callaway County east of Auxvasse Creek. The township as well as the city of Auxvasse are both named after Auxvasse Creek.
The township shows as extant on the 1876 official map of Callaway County, and its largest town (formerly called Smith's Landing, and now called Mokane) took on the name Saint Aubert around 1849, which may or may not be relevant to the formation of the township from what was the southern sector of Fulton Township (now East Fulton Township ...
U.S. Senator David Rice Atchison (1807–1886), a Democrat from Missouri 5,107: 545 sq mi (1,412 km 2) Audrain County: 007: Mexico: 1831: Callaway, Monroe and Ralls counties: James Hunter Audrain, a War of 1812 colonel Missouri State Legislator 24,394: 693 sq mi (1,795 km 2) Barry County: 009: Cassville: 1835: Greene County
Kingdom City is a village in Callaway County, Missouri, United States, with a population of 134 in 2020. It was founded in 1925 as a result of the intersection of US Route 40 and US Route 54, and has a historic church and a firefighters memorial.
This is useful for historical and genealogical research. Maps and text descriptions of Callaway townships prior to that date can be found under the article for Callaway County, Missouri. History. Cote Sans Dessein Township was established in 1821, and named after the community of Cote Sans Dessein, Missouri.