Henry County

Henry County (HM1BFE)

Location: Clinton, MO 64735 Henry County
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N 38° 22.229', W 93° 46.647'

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Henry County, in the prairie region of west central Missouri, was organized 1834, and named for Va. statesman William C. Rives. It was renamed for Patrick Henry in 1841, after Rives changed from Democrat to Whig. Through the county, which lies in the 1808 Osage Indian land cession, ran the old Harmony (Osage) Mission Trail and the Texas-Sedalia Cattle Trail. Pioneers, mainly from Ky., and Tenn., came in the early 1830's, and a number of Germans in the 1850's.

Clinton, the county seat, named for N.Y. Gov. DeWitt Clinton, is on a site chosen in 1836 by county commissioners Daniel McDowell, Henderson Young, and Daniel M. Boone, the eldest son of Daniel Boone. In Clinton was a U.S. Land Office, 1843-55. Early schools were E. P. Lamkin's Academy, 1879-96, and Baird (Female) College, 1885-1910, founded by H. T. and Priscilla Baird.

In the Civil War, Henry County supplied troops to the Confederates at the rate of about 10 to 1 for the Federals. The area suffered troop movement, guerrilla raids, skirmishes, two occurring at Clinton. The M.K.T.R.R., dates from 1870; the Frisco, 1885.
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One of Missouri's leading coal producing counties, Henry is also noted for poultry, dairy, and livestock farms. Among county towns are Calhoun, founded 1835, home of a U.S. Land Office, 1861-63; Windsor, laid out 1855; Brownington, 1869; Urich, LaDue, Montrose, founded in early 1870's; Hartwell, Blairstown, Deepwater, in early 1880's.

Among points of interest are the scenic Chalybeate Springs, near Clinton, and the city's Artesian Park on South Grand River. In Englewood Cemetery in Clinton is the lovely McLane Chapel, Catherine McBeth's memorial to memory of her grandfather, pioneer W. H. McLane. In the cemetery are buried H. W. Salmon, State Treas., 1873-75; B. G. Boone, State Att'y Gen., 1885-89; J. B. Gantt, judge Mo. Supreme Court, 1890-1900; James Lindsay, Mo. Supreme Court Comm., 1923-30; John H. Britts, noted amateur geologist; and C. C. Dickinson, long-time congressman.

Soprano Gladys Swarthout was born in Deepwater; W. T. Thornton, Terr. Gov., New Mex., 1893-97, in Calhoun. In Clinton, for a time lived soprano Vera Courtenay Thomas; singer Jane Froman; educator U. W. Lamkin.
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HM NumberHM1BFE
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Year Placed1960
Placed ByState Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission
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Date Added Friday, October 17th, 2014 at 6:27am PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)15S E 432086 N 4247208
Decimal Degrees38.37048333, -93.77745000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 22.229', W 93° 46.647'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 22' 13.74" N, 93° 46' 38.82" W
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Area Code(s)660
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 100-198 S Washington St, Clinton MO 64735, US
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