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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 for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
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.
Hall Street Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 43 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1870 and 1920, and includes representative examples of Italianate and Late Victorian style architecture. Notable ...
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.
Little Dixie is a historic region in central Missouri where Southerners settled and practiced slavery before the Civil War. Learn about its history, culture, economy, and racial relations from this Wikipedia article.
Cedar City is a former incorporated city in southern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on the Missouri River floodplain across the river channel from Jefferson City and is near the interchange of U.S. Routes 54 and 63. [2] It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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 ...
The township was reduced in size by about one-third between 1883 and 1897 by the creation of Cleveland Township from what had up to that time been its northern sector. These changes are shown in historical maps listed in the bibliography of the article on Callaway County, Missouri, and are significant for historical and genealogical research.