Surrounding
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Franklin County (north)
Washington County (east)
Iron County (southeast)
Dent County (south)
Phelps County (west)
Gasconade County (northwest)
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Welcome to Crawford County.
We hope you will enjoy your stay while learning more about your family, their neighbors, and the area they called home.
Established: Jan. 23, 1829
Parent County: Gasconade
County Seat: Steelville
Named After: William H. Crawford, Georgia senator
CRAWFORD COUNTY
Is situated southeast of the center of the State. This has been called the "Mother of Counties", from the fact that for many years her borders extended to the western part of the State. County after county has, from time to time, been cut from her western and southern borders, and the finale was accomplished in the formation of Phelps county, in 1857. The county embraces a great variety of soil-bottom, valley, table land, prairie and sandy soils. It is well adapted to corn, wheat, oats, grasses, fruit and vegetables. Stock growing would pay well here. The valleys of the large streams are frequently heavily timbered. Iron, lead and copper are abundant in the county, and coal has been found in two or three places. The localities of these minerals are shown upon the new geological map of Missouri, just issued by the author of the Hand-book. The Southwest Branch of the Pacific Railroad traverses the northwest portion of the county.
[The Source is: P.M. Pinckard, The Missouri handbook, St. Louis, 1865, 162 pgs. - Transcribed by Donna Walton ]
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Our goal is to help you
track your ancestors through time by transcribing
genealogical and historical data and placing it
online
for the free use of all researchers. We're looking
for folks who share our dedication to putting data
online and
are interested in helping this project be as
successful as we can make it.
If you are interested in
joining our group by hosting one of the available
county websites please view our
Volunteer Information page
and
Email Kim.
A desire
to transcribe data and know-how to make a
basic
webpage is required.
We'll be adding
data to this site as we can.
You can help us to get this
site growing by
sending in
your family's data.
You are welcome, encouraged even, to browse the information on these pages
and at the many links provided to garner the data needed to continue your
research into your family history. However, Please remember that this
information, in many cases, represents years of painstaking research on the part
of myself, or the many generous volunteers who have donated their information to
this site. You can show your respect for these efforts by not taking things to
use on other websites and/or to claim as your own.
We thank you in advance for your consideration Candi Horton © Feb. 2007
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Last up-dated 05/28/2009