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  2. Williamsburg, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Williamsburg, Missouri. Coordinates: 38°55′13″N 91°42′06″W. Williamsburg is an unincorporated community in eastern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route D just north of Interstate 70, approximately thirteen miles northeast of Fulton. The Whetstone Creek Conservation Area along ...

  3. History of slavery in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    The history of slavery in Missouri began in 1720, predating statehood, with the large-scale slavery in the region, when French merchant Philippe François Renault brought about 500 slaves of African descent from Saint-Domingue up the Mississippi River to work in lead mines in what is now southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois.

  4. Carter's Grove - Wikipedia

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    Carter's Grove, also known as Carter's Grove Plantation, is a 750-acre (300 ha) plantation located on the north shore of the James River in the Grove Community of southeastern James City County in the Virginia Peninsula area of the Hampton Roads region of Virginia in the United States . The plantation was built for Carter Burwell, grandson of ...

  5. Boonville, Missouri - Wikipedia

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    Boonville, Missouri. /  38.95833°N 92.74694°W  / 38.95833; -92.74694. Boonville is a city and the county seat of Cooper County, Missouri, United States. [4] The population was 7,964 at the 2020 census. The city was the site of a skirmish early in the Civil War, on July 17, 1861.

  6. Highland (James Monroe house) - Wikipedia

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    Highland, formerly Ash Lawn–Highland, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, and adjacent to Thomas Jefferson 's Monticello, was the estate of James Monroe, a Founding Father and fifth president of the United States. Purchased in 1793, Monroe and his family permanently settled on the property in 1799 and lived at Highland for ...

  7. Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

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    After he died in 1789, responsibility for surveying was transferred to the Surveyor General. Land was to be systematically surveyed into square townships, 6 mi (9.7 km) on a side, each divided into thirty-six sections of 1 sq mi (2.6 km 2) or 640 acres (260 ha). These sections could then be subdivided for re-sale by settlers and land speculators.

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