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Madison County, Missouri

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    Madison County is in the southeastern part of the state in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is bound on the north by St. Francois County; northeast by Perry County; east by Bollinger County; south Wayne County; and west by Iron County.

     

    The first persons to explore Madison County were Renault and La Motte and their companies about 1721-23.  They discovered minerals, principally lead, but finding no silver ore did not establish a settlement.

     

    One of the first recorded settlement was in 1799.  In 1806 the first brick house in the county was built two miles west of St. Michaels.

     

    Madison County was organized  December 14, 1818 and was named for President Madison. The county was formed from Cape Girardeau and Ste. Genevieve.  The first county seat was St. Michaels, but later moved to Fredericktown, 1819.

     

    During the Civil War the county furnished soldiers to both Federal and Confederate sides.  The people of Madison County found themselves victims of guerrilla fighting and military activity throughout the war.

       

    The battle of Fredericktown was fought just south of the city along Greenville Road on, October 21, 1861

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    A reenactment of the Battle of Fredericktown is now held every other year during the month of September.

     

    Mining has been a key industry in this area with Madison County recorded as having the oldest lead mine west of the Mississippi River.

     

    Lead mined at the Mine La Motte has been used for the manufacture of bullets for every military action of the United States from the American Revolution to the Korean Conflict.

     

    The public school system was not started in the county until 1880.

     

    The first newspaper was the "Espial", published in 1847, and is said to be the first Free Soil paper in the state.

     

     

                                               

 

Items of Interest

 Mortality Index

 News Articles  

Facts and Trivia

 Madison County Mining

News Tidbits

Mineral Resources

 County Formations

Population Data   

Maps 

View of Madison County  

 Early Newspapers

 

1899 Brain Teaser

Death Certificates  

 Obituaries

John Duncan's Murder Confession 

Births  

 Trail of Tears

Vital Data

Biographies  

Family Queries  

 

County Marriages    

 

 Marriages Books    

  Marriage Certificates    

 

Census Data   

Census Data 1 

Census Data 2 

1860 Federal Census - Fredericktown   

 

Cemeteries     

 

New Calvary Cemetery  

St. Michaels Cemetery  

 

 

 Churches   

St. Michael's Altar Society   

List of the Heads of Families of St. Michael's Parish   

Church Support   

Baptist Providence Church   

Social and Religious Denomintions  

List of UrsulineSisters in Charge of School   

The Bell's of St. Michael's   

 

 

 

 

The Great Plank Road

 

Tin Mountain

 

Mob Law  

 

 Judge James D. Fox

 

Death of Judge James D. Fox   

 

 Burial of Judge James D. Fox  

 

Levi W. Myers   

  

 

 County Politics  

Joseph W. Folk  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cities and Townships   

French Mills

St. Michael

Marquand   

Twelve Mile

Zion

Pilot Knob

Mine la Motte   

Cornwall   

 

 

 All About Fredericktown  

 

Fredericktown

Fredericktown 1900

Fredericktown 1877

Fredericktown Springs Land Scam

Old French Village Transformed  

First Settlement   

Fredericktown - 1875  

1941 View of Fredericktown  

 

County Families   

Charles Calvin Smith Family  

Madison County Wills

Will Book "A"  

 

1841 Pensioners List 

Pensioners On Rolls 1883

1890 Civil War Vetrans Census

 

WWII Honor List  

 

Pensions  

 

Military NewsTidbits   

 

Confederate Dead   

 

Civil War Medal of Honor

 

Dr. Frank R. Newberry   

 

War In Missouri    

 

Battle of Fredericktown

Pilot Knob  

Fredericktown - War 50 Years Ago  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Madison County Courts  

 

County Court

Circuit Court

Notable Court Cases

 

 

 

 

 

 

2010 Updates

2009 Updates

2008 Updates

2007 Updates

 

 

Adjacent Counties

St. Francois

Perry

Bollinger

Wayne

Iron

 

Cities and Towns

Castor Station

Cobalt

Fredericktown

Junction City

Marquand

Millcreek

Mine La Motte

Oak Grove

Saco

Zion

 

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