Missouri, Mississippi, Meramec, Osage, Kahoka, Kenoma and Kewanee. The strange-sounding names on...
Pioneers: Osage, Missouri Tribes Once Blanketed the State
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Pioneers: Unusual Cache of Indian Artifacts Discovered
April 15, 2006, started off as an ordinary spring day for Shannon and Amy McCrary of Pattonsburg,...
Pioneers: Early Transportation Rules of the Road
Times change and roads change. By the mid-1800s, the time for nothing but winding paths was over....
Pioneers: Earliest Cattle Drive in Daviess County Recorded in 1819
The grass of the Great Plains upon which the buffaloes had grazed for thousands of years proved to...
Pioneers: The Prominence of Judge Adam Black
Judge Adam Black (1801-1890) is remembered in Daviess County as the Justice of the Peace during...
Pioneers: First Settlers Found a Hunter’s Delight in Daviess County
The following reveals life as known to settlers who first entered into this region, before Daviess...
Pioneers: Last Pioneer Killed by Indians in NW Missouri 1814
The first permanent settlers in Daviess County, MO, came to stay around 1830. This followed the...
Pioneers: Lewis-Clark Expedition Touches Daviess County
Evidence of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, surprisingly, can be traced today to Gallatin, the...
Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
Trudi Burton, ph: 660.663.7342
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