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Dexter was platted in 1873. [4] Mr. Dex, an early settler, gave the community the name of his horse, Dexter. [5] Dexter experienced rapid growth with the arrival of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. [6] A post office called Dexter City was established in 1873, and the name was changed to Dexter in 1887. [7]
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded at a meeting of delegates on April 22, 1912. [13] An important catalyst for the creation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce were two prior business engagements between the U.S. and Japan. In 1908, Eiichi Shibusawa invited the first official, modern day U.S. business delegation to visit Japan.
Interior of the Merchants Exchange Building during the 1876 Democratic National Convention, in which Samuel J. Tilden was named the party's nominee for president. The Merchants Exchange Building was a building at Third Street [1] at Chestnut and Pine in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1875 to 1958, that housed the St. Louis Merchants Exchange and hosted the 1876 Democratic National Convention.
This list of museums in Missouri encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including non-profit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Dexter: Original Sin will have 10 episodes that will air originally on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME every Friday and will later air on Sunday nights at 10 PM ET/PT on Showtime's cable network. The ...
However, Hull Chamber of Commerce is the United Kingdom's oldest, followed by those of Leeds and of Belfast in present-day Northern Ireland. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] As a non-governmental institution, a chamber of commerce has no direct role in the writing and passage of laws and regulations that affect businesses.
He is a deacon of the First Baptist Church, and a member of Dexter Kiwanis Club, the Missouri Farm Bureau, the American-International Charolais Association, the Missouri Delta Center Advisory Committee, the Missouri Veterans Home Foundation Board, and the Stoddard County Gospel Mission Board.
Commerce, along with the German settlement of New Hamburg, were the two enclaves of Union sympathizers in Scott County during the war. On November 1, 1861, Colonel Oglesby landed in Commerce with about 3,000 men, where his soldiers soon exchanged shots with M. Jeff Thompson — who raided the Commerce on December 29, 1861.