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Controversy over whether Missouri should be admitted as a slave state resulted in the Missouri Compromise of 1821, which specified that territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase north of latitude 36° 30', which described most of Missouri's southern border, would, except for Missouri, become free states, and territory south of that line ...
Hoyt was founded in 1886. [4] It was named for George Henry Hoyt, an abolitionist and attorney for John Brown. [5]The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad originally went through Hoyt and in the late 1890s and early 1900s, Hoyt was a large cattle and hay shipping point between St. Joseph, Missouri and Herington, Kansas.
Vichy is an unincorporated community in southern Maries County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on U.S. Route 63, approximately 10 miles north of Rolla.The community was founded in 1880 and is named after Vichy, France. [2]
The "Shawnee Prophet", Tenskwatawa died here in November 1836. Argentine is a community of Kansas City, Kansas, located in the southern part of Wyandotte County.It is bordered on the west by the Turner community, on the east by the Rosedale community, on the south by Johnson County, and on the north by Armourdale community and by the Kansas River.
The city was named for Henry Dearborn, Revolutionary War general and Secretary of War, [4] [5] and was incorporated in 1882. [6]From 1913 to 1933, Dearborn was one of the stops along the Kansas City, Clay County and St. Joseph Railway (KCCC&SJ), an interurban light rail line connecting Kansas City and St. Joseph.
The Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is a publicly owned property in Florida, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, that preserves the cabin where the author Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in 1835.