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CHARITON COUNTY
Established: Nov. 16, 1820, effective Jan. 1, 1821
Parent County: Howard County Seat: Keytesville
Named After: Chariton River
The Source is: P.M. Pinckard, The Missouri handbook, St. Louis, 1865, 162 pgs. Transcribed by Donna Walton
This
county is situated on the Missouri River, in the north central part of
the State. The soil and climate of "old Chariton" may be understood,
when we state that this has for some years past been one of the largest
tobacco growing counties in the State. Corn has been produced so
exclusively in years past, as to be dull at ten and twelve and a half
cents per bushel. The spontaneous products of the forests and prairies
furnished an abundance of food for stock, so that there was poor demand
for corn at home or abroad. Coal is abundant in every region of the
county, but only surface veins have yet been opened, except in one or
two regions.
(For a detailed history of Chariton county from its
first settlement, description of the coal formation, and the statistics
of various crops grown - too lengthy for this work-see "Missouri As It
Is In 1865," pages 217 to 226 inclusive.)
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