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Millport, Missouri

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Village located three miles east of Gallatin, Missouri, between Grand River and Big Muddy Creek.

Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:447; Leopard et al., History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri, 88, 123; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 86; “Daviess County, Missouri,” Historical Record, Jan. 1888, 8:731.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

Leopard, John C., Buel Leopard, R. M. McCammon, and Mary McCammon Hillman. History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Co., 1922.

Baugh, Alexander L. “A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri.” PhD diss., Brigham Young University, 1996. Also available as A Call to Arms: The 1838 Mormon Defense of Northern Missouri, Dissertations in Latter-day Saint History (Provo, UT: Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Latter-day Saint History; BYU Studies, 2000).

The Historical Record, a Monthly Periodical, Devoted Exclusively to Historical, Biographical, Chronological and Statistical Matters. Salt Lake City. 1882–1890.

First settled by Robert P. Peniston, ca. 1831.

Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:446, 461; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 86; Leopard et al., History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri, 69, 169; History of Daviess County, Missouri, 147–148, 441.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

Leopard, John C., Buel Leopard, R. M. McCammon, and Mary McCammon Hillman. History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Co., 1922.

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Named Millport after Peniston completed horse-powered corn mill, ca. 1834.

History of Daviess County, Missouri, 146, 150, 153, 441; Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:446.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

Laid out as town, 1836.

Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:461; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 86.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

First town in Daviess Co.; served as unofficial county seat upon county’s creation, Dec. 1836–summer 1837.

An Act to Organize the Counties of Caldwell and Daviess [29 Dec. 1836], Laws of the State of Missouri [1836], 46–47; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 30–33, 86; Leopard et al., History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri, 69, 88, 123; History of Daviess County, Missouri, 153, 155, 441.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Laws of the State of Missouri, Passed at the First Session of the Ninth General Assembly, Begun and Held at the City of Jefferson, on Monday, the Twenty-First Day of November, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-Six. 2nd ed. St. Louis: Chambers and Knapp, 1841.

Leopard, John C., Buel Leopard, R. M. McCammon, and Mary McCammon Hillman. History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Co., 1922.

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Major local trade port, 1835–1837.

History of Daviess County, Missouri, 441; Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 86.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Upon Gallatin’s designation as county seat, much of Millport population moved to Gallatin, 1837.

History of Daviess County, Missouri, 165, 441; Leopard et al., History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri, 88.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Leopard, John C., Buel Leopard, R. M. McCammon, and Mary McCammon Hillman. History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Co., 1922.

Among towns where Saints launched preemptive strike against vigilantes, 18 Oct. 1838, after “Mormon War” erupted.

Baugh, “Call to Arms,” 85–87; History of Daviess County, Missouri, 204–205; Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:448; see also Affidavit, 5 Sept. 1838.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

Burned down during conflict; never rebuilt.

History of Daviess County, Missouri, 204–205, 441–442; Leopard et al., History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri, 88; Williams, History of Northwest Missouri, 1:461.

Comprehensive Works Cited

The History of Daviess County, Missouri. An Encyclopedia of Useful Information, and a Compendium of Actual Facts. . . . Kansas City, MO: Birdsall and Dean, 1882.

Leopard, John C., Buel Leopard, R. M. McCammon, and Mary McCammon Hillman. History of Daviess and Gentry Counties, Missouri. Topeka, KS: Historical Publishing Co., 1922.

Williams, Walter, ed. A History of Northwest Missouri. 3 vols. Chicago: Lewis, 1915.

Millport, Missouri

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