Great Depression: Consolidation to 40 Counties Suggested
Due to increased expenses and less revenue during the Great Depression, some authorities were suggesting how the 114 counties in Missouri could reduced to 40 counties. City governments were devised a century earlier, long before the highways or the motor vehicles...
1929: First City Hall Known as ‘The House that Joe Built’
During the Great Depression era, Gallatin citizens had a loss unrelated to the financial crisis that plagued the nation. In 1926, a fire destroyed the city hall which at that time was merely a wooden structure built in the 1870’s by the former city marshal, Joe...
1908: The Hidden ‘Treasure’ at Gallatin City Hall
Probably few people know the story of Gallatin’s city hall and what is hidden in the former Y.M.C.A. building’s cornerstone, bearing the name Y.M.C.A., the emblem of the Y.M.C.A., and the dates 1887 and 1908. On Oct. 5, 1908, the same day as the dedication...
1857: Incorporation of the City of Gallatin, MO
The January 11, 1900, issue of The North Missourian, a newspaper edited by C.M. Harrison, published a front page story offering this brief sketch of the founding and early days of Gallatin, MO Gallatin Now 62 Years Old The eighth day of January is a historic date in...
1843: A View of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO
No doubt Ed Ellis came to Gallatin to see the then new Daviess County courthouse in 1843. Ellis planted wheat and had built a cabin (in that order) north of Gallatin on the east side of Little Cypress Creek in 1941 (today south of Route H in Harrison County). Ellis,...
1838: Creekmore Home Precedes the Daviess County Courthouse
Daviess County’s first court house was a private residence — the home of Elisha B. Creekmore. Here both the county and circuit courts met. At the march term of the county court, 1838, the question of the erection of a court house and jail was discussed,...
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,
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