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After Perry County was organized in 1821, the county court was established on May 21, 1821 in the home of Bede Moore, located two and half miles north of Perryville, by Lewis Cissell, D.L. Caldwell, and Samuel Anderson. County officials used a two-story log building for conducting county business.
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]
The current courthouse is the third such structure. It was built in 1904 at a cost of $30,000. Perryville and Perry County were named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, Naval hero of the War of 1812. [7] [8] An early store in Perryville was a log structure built by Jean Ferdinand Rozier on the north side of the square. [9]
The Department of Health and Senior Services is responsible for managing and promoting all public health programs to improve life and wellness for Missourians. [1] They are responsible for maintaining programs to control and prevent disease; regulation and licensure of health and child care facilities; and programs designed to create safeguards and health resources for seniors and the state's ...
This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Missouri. The area codes are allocated within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) . The two original area codes for Missouri in 1947 were 314 and 816.
He died in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. His parents were born in Germany in the 1840s. Dr. Louis W. Holtmann (1886-1918) c. 1918 1918 Dentist. He died of pneumonia and influenza in Perryville in 1918 at the age of 33. [5] Henry F. Weiss (1868-1940) 1919 1922 (Previously served as mayor, 1908–1918) Leo A. Herbst (1883-1969) 1922 c. 1923-1924
From 1960-1966, nineteen small school districts within Perry County are annexed into District 32. In 1975, voters approved a $1.25 million bond issue to build a new high school. The facilities opened in April 1976 and eliminated a number of trailers used as classrooms.
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,708 people, with a density of 16.7 per square mile (6.5 km2), residing in the township. The population density was 25 people per square mile.