The History of the Government of Cape Girardeau County, [MO] Scrapbook

Collection — Box: 2581, Scrapbook: 003

Identifier: 2007.135

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Article written by Lila Maxine Pine relating the history of Cape Girardeau County. Topics include early history, the County court, the budget, and personnel.

Dates

Creation: 1946

Rights Statement

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Biographical / Historical

In the 1730’s, a Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Girardot, for whom Cape Girardeau is named, established a trading post on the west bank of the Mississippi River. However, Girardot was a trader, not a settler, and by the middle 1700’s Girardot had moved on. In 1793, the Spanish Government gave Frenchman Louis Lorimier a land grant to establish another trading post near the river, a few miles south of the site previously established by Girardot. Early in 1806, the town of Cape Girardeau was laid out in lots. A petition for incorporation was presented in 1808. Population expansion at first was slow; however, the age of steamboats allowed easy movement of manufactured goods on the river, which expedited growth. When the railroads were completed, it is said that the city’s population doubled in just a few months.

Extent

1 Scrapbooks

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Article written by Lila Maxine Pine relating the history of Cape Girardeau County. Topics include early history, the County court, the budget, and personnel.

Record Groups

- RH. Regional History Collections

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: The History of the Government of Cape Girardeau County, [MO] Scrapbook 1946 January 10
Status: Completed
Author: Brooke Culler
Date: 2007
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: English