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After Robidoux returned to St. Louis about 1823, he worked as a baker and confectioner. In 1826, he was hired by the American Fur Company to establish a trading post at the Blacksnake Hills (near the site on the Missouri River of present-day Saint Joseph, Missouri.) He remained their employee for four years, at the salary of $1,800 a year ...
Pierre Lorimier died at Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1812 and was buried alongside his Indian wife in Old Lorimier Cemetery near the city. Loramie Creek in Ohio, where Lorimier had his trading post, is named after him. [2] Nearby place names such as Fort Loramie, Ohio and Lake Loramie State Park also derive from his name.
The Battle of Marais des Cygnes (/ ˌ m ɛər d ə ˈ z iː n,-ˈ s iː n, ˈ m ɛər d ə z iː n /) [2] [3] took place on October 25, 1864, in Linn County, Kansas, during Price's Missouri Campaign during the American Civil War. It is also known as the Battle of Trading Post. [4]
Perry County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census , the population was 18,956. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Perryville . [ 2 ]
Some of the earliest Americans to put down roots in Perry County were English and Scots-Irish Presbyterian settlers from Rowan, Iredell, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina who settled Brazeau in 1817. [5] There, they opened land in the Brazeau Creek drainage basin. In 1804, Brazeau was estimated to have had 88 inhabitants.
Missouri entered the union as the 24th state in 1821, and the federal government, in 1825, moved to extinguish any remaining Shawnee claims under the Spanish land grant. In November the 1,400 Shawnee in Missouri agreed to a treaty signed at St. Louis with William Clark , exchanging their lands along Apple Creek, near Cape Girardeau, for 2,500 ...
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Yount was established in 1886 as Yount's Store, and was named for Henry Yount, [3] a merchant and storekeeper, as well as a postmaster and county judge. The name was shortened to Yount in 1888. [4] The post office operated in Yount from 1887 until 1954. [5] Mt. Pisca Lutheran Church was founded in Yount in 1852 and continued until 1868.