Maysville in DeKalb County, Missouri — The American Midwest (Upper Plains)

DeKalb County

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 3, 2015

1. DeKalb County Marker (Side A)

Inscription.

DeKalb County. .

[Side A] , DeKalb County, 270,720 acres of rolling prairie land, is one of 19 Missouri counties organized in February, 1845. The name is for German-born Johann Kalb, member of the French army and general in the American Revolution, known as Baron de Kalb. In May, 1845, near the center of the almost square county, Maysville was laid out as the county seat and named for either the month of May or Maysville, Kentucky.

The DeKalb County Courthouse, built in 1939, is the county's fourth. To the west of the courthouse is Maysville's oldest house, built of brick by Dr. John Black in 1854. In one of the few Civil War incidents in the county, Union troops vandalized the house as Black was a Confederate sympathizer.

Missouri's first permanent Chautauqua was founded in Maysville in 1896 by Thomas J. Williamson. Opening lecture was "Last Days of the Confederacy" by Gen. J. B. Gordon.

James T. Blair, Jr., inaugurated Governor of Missouri, 1957, formerly Lt. Gov., 1949-57, was born in Maysville. His father was a Mo. Supreme Court judge, 1915-24. , (See other side)

[Side B] , (Continued from other side) , First white settler in DeKalb County was a Canadian Frenchman, Samuel Vesser, who made a temporary home near Stewartsville in 1824, the year Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes ceded their claims to the area. Permanent settlers, largely from Ky. and Tenn., came in the late 1820's. Lying in northwest Missouri's Glacial Plains Region, DeKalb is a livestock and grain farming county.

Maysville, the seat of justice, was the only town in the county until Stewartsville was laid out to the south in 1858 on the route chosen by the Hannibal and St. Joseph (now C. B. and Q.). There was Stewartsville Academy, later a college, 1860-85. Osborn was laid out on the same route, 1854, and north on the C. B. and Q., Union Star was founded in 1879. The Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific reached Maysville, 1886, and on this route Weatherby, Amity, and Clarksdale were founded, 1885.

[Side A]
DeKalb County, 270,720 acres of rolling prairie land, is one of 19 Missouri counties organized in February, 1845. The name is for German-born Johann Kalb, member of the French army and general in the American Revolution, known as Baron de Kalb. In May, 1845, near the center of the almost square county, Maysville was laid out as the county seat and named for either the month of May or Maysville, Kentucky.

Missouri's first permanent Chautauqua was founded in Maysville in 1896 by Thomas J. Williamson. Opening lecture was "Last Days of the Confederacy" by Gen. J. B. Gordon.

James T. Blair, Jr., inaugurated Governor of Missouri, 1957, formerly Lt. Gov., 1949-57, was born in Maysville. His father was a Mo. Supreme Court judge, 1915-24.
(See other side)

[Side B]
(Continued from other side)
First white settler in DeKalb County was a Canadian Frenchman, Samuel Vesser, who made a temporary home near Stewartsville in 1824, the year Iowa, Sac, and Fox tribes ceded their claims to the area. Permanent

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settlers, largely from Ky. and Tenn., came in the late 1820's. Lying in northwest Missouri's Glacial Plains Region, DeKalb is a livestock and grain farming county.

Maysville, the seat of justice, was the only town in the county until Stewartsville was laid out to the south in 1858 on the route chosen by the Hannibal and St. Joseph (now C. B. & Q.). There was Stewartsville Academy, later a college, 1860-85. Osborn was laid out on the same route, 1854, and north on the C. B. & Q., Union Star was founded in 1879. The Chicago, Rock Island, & Pacific reached Maysville, 1886, and on this route Weatherby, Amity, and Clarksdale were founded, 1885.

The old Council Bluffs Trace, a post road opened by the U.S. Army, 1823, from Liberty, Mo., to Fort Atkinson, Nebr., ran through the county. Lost Creek near Maysville got its name when several soldiers, lost in the snow, were rescued near this stream.

Erected 1958 by State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Education • Railroads & Streetcars • Roads & Vehicles • Settlements & Settlers. In addition, it is included in the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Railway, and the Missouri, The State Historical Society of series lists. A significant historical month for this entry is February 1845.

Location.

DeKalb County Marker (Side B) image. Click for full size.

Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 3, 2015

2. DeKalb County Marker (Side B)

39° 53.387′ N, 94° 21.572′ W. Marker is in Maysville, Missouri, in DeKalb County. Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Missouri Route 6) and Polk Street (Missouri Highway A), on the right when traveling west on Main Street. Marker is on the county courthouse grounds. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 109 West Main Street, Maysville MO 64469, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 13 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. DeKalb County Veterans Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); 1st Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade (approx. 12.1 miles away); Herbert Clark Hoover (approx. 12.1 miles away); John T. Walker (approx. 12.1 miles away); Lee Purcell / Michael Douglas (approx. 12.1 miles away); Jesse James (approx. 12.2 miles away); Cameron Railroads (approx. 12.2 miles away); Abraham Lincoln / John Wilkes Booth (approx. 12.3 miles away).

Also see . . . DeKalb County, Missouri. Wikipedia entry (Submitted on January 16, 2022, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

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Photographed By William Fischer, Jr., August 3, 2015

3. DeKalb County Marker

County courthouse in background DeKalb County Plat Book:
University of Missouri Digital Library website entry
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Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2022. It was originally submitted on September 3, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania. This page has been viewed 665 times since then and 35 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on September 3, 2015, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.