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Dade County, Missouri
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DADE COUNTY
The Source is: P.M. Pinckard, The Missouri
handbook, St. Louis, 1865, 162 pgs.
Transcribed by Donna Walton
Is situated in the south-western part of the State. The face of the country is
undulating, and in some portions broken-more prairie than timber. The soil is
generally fertile, and well adapted to the various purposes of agriculture,
horticulture, and stock raising. Water power is abundant-upon some of the
streams unimproved. Iron, copper, and coal have been found in various parts of
the county, but no mine have been worked to any considerable extent. Timber
enough along the valleys for practical purposes.
The mildness of the climate, abundance of native and cultivated grasses, and of
stock water render this county well adapted to stock growing. Thousands of
cattle have been driven from here to Utah and California. There were on the 1st
of March, about 30,000 acres of government land in this county, subject to entry
at the Booneville Lane Office.
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Established: Jan. 29, 1841
Parent County: Barry and Polk
County Seat: Greenfield
Named After: Francis L. Dade, pioneer settler |