McCord, who settled near Walbridge Spring with Levie Lee and founded the town Neosho twelve miles (19 km) to the west. Ritchie, who founded the town of Newtonia near Oliver’s Prairie, and John W. McInturf built a corn mill, the first mill of any kind in the region. In 1831 he was joined by Nathaniel Turner, John Smith, Joseph Ross, Campbell Pure, Blake Wilson, Levi Lee, Carmac Ratcliffe, and George McInturf. His nearest neighbors were in Springfield, sixty miles to the east. The first of these settlers was Lunsford Oliver, who arrived from Tennessee in 1829 and located near Shoal Creek, giving his name to Oliver’s Prairie. Starting in the late 1820s, settlers of English, Scottish, German, Welsh, and Scots-Irish ancestry began moving into the area. Unfortunately, because it’s Wikipedia and not a sprawling government bureaucracy, that can take the form of any of the following nomenclature (plus others): Use the internet’s version of official government data - Wikipedia of course!įor the majority of cities in Missouri, Wikipedia offers data on some kind of ‘date of foundation’ in the infobox.
Put differently, there’s no official data set from the Census that contains when every place in America was founded. Surprisingly, there’s not a definitive data set that contains the dates of incorporation or settlement for cities in America. How We Determined When A City Was Founded In Missouri… Or Is It Settled? Read on for a look at the oldest places in Missouri or feel free to check out the best places to live in Missouri or the safest. And the newest city in Missouri? That would be Grandview - a brand spanking 6 years old. These are the 10 oldest cities and towns in the Show Me State according to their ‘date of foundation’:įor being 189 years old, Liberty doesn’t look a day over 40. Augustine.Īnd now that we have you thinking about how the time line of your existence is really kind of unimpressive on the timeline of history, let’s drop right into the analysis. For example, the Pyramids in Egypt were built around 2600 BC, a cool 4100 years before St. Augustine or American Independence in 1776?īecause even if your Missouri city or town is old, it isn’t really all that old in the grand scheme of things. So that got us thinking, what is the oldest city in Missouri? And how old is that when you put it into perspective of St. That’s older than America for those playing at home. Which looks pretty good for being 454 years old. You might think your town is old, but it probably isn’t the oldest in the country.
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