Fredericktown, the county seat and principal town, a station on the St. L. & I. M. R. R., 105 miles from St. Louis and 91 miles from Belmont, was settled in 1821. It contains 5 churches—1 Catholic, 2 Methodist (1 colored), and 2 Baptist (1 colored), and about 1,200 inhabitants.  The greater portion of the older settlers—some of whom are still living—were Catholics.

There is one large union school building, well supplied with modern desks and apparatus, costing $6,000, and 2 newspapers—The Bee, Edgar P. Caruthers, editor, and The Plain Dealer, Dr. W. H. Gosney, publisher.

Fredericktown, including Collier's and Villar's and the old St. Michael additions, has 16 stores, 3 hotels, 2 planing mills, 1 fence manufactory, 1 saddler's and 4 wagon shops.

Campbell’s Gazetteer Of Missouri - 1875 

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