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The Missouri River Valley outlines the journey of the Missouri River from its headwaters where the Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers flow together in Montana to its confluence with the Mississippi River in the State of Missouri. At 2,300 miles (3,700 km) long the valley drains one-sixth of the United States, [1] and is the longest river ...
[10] [8] Missouri Valley was a true railroad town in the late 1800s. The Sioux City and Pacific's headquarters was there and with it came the associated repair and machine shops, blacksmith, round house, etc. By 1896 population was approaching 4,000 and 25 passenger trains were coming in and out of Missouri Valley each day on 3 different lines ...
Missouri Valley may refer to: Missouri Valley, Iowa, a small city; Missouri River Valley; Missouri Valley Conference, an NCAA Division I non-football college athletic ...
Missouri Valley Trust Company Historic District, formerly known as the Market Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri.The district encompasses six contributing buildings in the central business district of St. Joseph.
Missouri River Valley Railroad: WAB: 1859 1864 North Missouri Railroad: Missouri Southeastern Railway: SLSF: 1891 1898 Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield and Southern Railway: Missouri Southern Railroad: MS 1886 1941 N/A Missouri Valley Railroad: CB&Q: 1867 1870 Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad: Missouri Valley Park Railroad: MVP ...
At the time of its founding by ethnic French, Ste. Genevieve was the last of a triad of French Canadian settlements in this area of the mid-Mississippi Valley. About five miles northeast of Ste. Genevieve on the east side of the river was Fort de Chartres (in the Illinois Country); it stood as the official capital of the area.
The "Missouri Crisis" was resolved at first in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise cleared the way for Missouri's entry to the union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise stated that the remaining portion of the Louisiana Territory above the 36°30′ line was to be free from slavery. This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted.
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