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Established: Feb. 25, 1845
Parent County: Clinton
County Seat: Maysville
Named After: Johann Kalb, Baron DeKalb |
DEKALB COUNTY
Is in the north-western part of the State. The soils of the county are fertile and well adapted to the culture
of hemp, corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, etc. Hemp has been regarded as the most profitable crop-yielding from 1000
to 1500 pounds to the acre, which costs, say $25 per acre to raise and prepare for market, and was quoted in February,
'65, at from $135 to $165 per ton for undressed-good to choice at St. Louis. Small grains yield abundantly. Horses,
mules, cattle and sheep, do well and stock raising is profitable. Building stone, clay for bricks, and hard-wood
timber, abundant. The general surface is undulating, and diversified by prairies and woodlands. The Hannibal and
St. Joseph railroad passes through the southern border 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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