|
The Truman Area Community Network
A Community Information Source
supported by the Henry County Library
|
|
Chronology of Henry County - 1850's
[History Page]
[Chronology Page]
[1820-1829]
[1830-1839]
[1840-1849]
[1850-1859]
[1860-1869]
[1870-1879]
[1880-1889]
[1890-1899]
[1900-1909]
[1910-1919]
[1920-1929]
[1930-1939]
[1940-1949]
[1950-1959]
[1960-1969]
[1970-1979]
[1980-1989]
[1990-1999]
[2000-2009]
[1850]
[1851]
[1852]
[1853]
[1854]
[1855]
[1856]
[1857]
[1858]
[1859]
1850
- Census population for Henry County is 4,052, compared to the 1830 figure of 4,726 for Henry and St. Clair counties together.
- 13 grade schools in operation in Henry County.
- Deepwater post office opened, in a house near Deepwater Creek north of present day Montrose. Moved several times before ending at Germantown in 1864.
- Post office title of Rives Court House changed to Clinton.
- February 4: "Town of Kansas" incorporated, the beginning of what is now Kansas City.
[Back to Top of Page]
1851
- Benjamin Owen leases the old well at the southeast corner of the public square for 15 years and builds a well house over it.
- County court appropriates $1,500 to finish off the court house. Apparently when the court house was built not all of the interior was finished.
- August: Election authorizes the county to subscribe $10,000 of stock in the Pacific Railroad of Missouri. Nothing was done.
[Back to Top of Page]
1852
- August: Election authorizes the county to subscribe $50,000 of stock in the Pacific Railroad of Missouri.
- August 25: County court orders the subscription made, with restrictions as to the route followed. At the time the Pacific RR had not fully determined the route to be followed west of Jefferson City; one of the proposals at this time was to run more or less westerly along the divide between the Missouri River and Osage River drainage, which would have brought the line along a route along the northern edge of Henry County.
[Back to Top of Page]
1853
- February 18: County court appoints James M. Gatewood as agent to subscribe to the Pacific RR stock, and a $5,000 payment was made on the subscription.
- February 24: Reorganization of state school system. State begins providing larger sums in aid of education.
[Back to Top of Page]
1854
- County court appropriates $3,000 for construction of a jail for Henry County. Contract let to William Johnson and Joel Bridges.
- Town of Leesville is laid out. Several different names suggested for the town: Centreville, Starvation Point, Pinch-him-slyly, Hardscrabble and Niggerhead, but Leesville was adopted after one of the two founders of the town. Post office was named Tebo.
[Back to Top of Page]
1855
- First house and store at Huntingdale.
- Town of Belmont laid out in the northeast corner of the county. (The Post Office rejected this name, as there was already a Belmont in Missouri. Spring Grove was offered as a substitute, and also rejected by the Post Office, because there was already another town with that name also. Windsor Castle was suggested by ??? and this name was won approval, with the Castle dropped off to make it plain Windsor.)
[Back to Top of Page]
1856
- County jail is completed.
- Sardis Baptist Church builds frame church building, at cost of $600.
- August: Bogard Township is organized.
- August: Clinton Hay Scales Company organized and county granted them grounds to erect a platform scale.
[Back to Top of Page]
1857
- First store in Germantown.
- Tebo post office changed to Leesville; the town had changed name earlier.
- February: County court orders the sheriff to stop collecting taxes for interest and calls on the Pacific RR stock - the railroad had decided not to build in or near Henry County, instead following a route further north through the middle of Pettis and Johnson Counties to a terminus at Kansas City.
[Back to Top of Page]
1858
- Osage Township organized.
- February 6: Town of Clinton is incorporated.
- April 26: The first issue of the first newspaper in Henry County, the Clinton Journal, is printed. The paper closed in the summer of 1861.
- May: Osage Township is organized. Boundary ran from the Grand River at Benton/Henry line, south to corner of the county, west to range 26/27, north to Deepwater Creekl, east to the Grand River, and down Grand River to start.
- October: Butterfield Overland Mail Company opens stage coach and mail route from Tipton, Missouri to San Francisco, California, running via Warsaw, Wheatland, Elkton, Bolivar, Brighton, Springfield, Clever and Cassville in Missouri.
[Back to Top of Page]
1859
- Town of Coal first settled. Initially known as Cole's Store or Colesburgh.
- March 12: The small portion of land in the southeast corner of the county, south of the Osage River, is detached from Henry County and added to St. Clair County.
[Back to Top of Page]
[History Page]
[Chronology Page]
[1820-1829]
[1830-1839]
[1840-1849]
[1850-1859]
[1860-1869]
[1870-1879]
[1880-1889]
[1890-1899]
[1900-1909]
[1910-1919]
[1920-1929]
[1930-1939]
[1940-1949]
[1950-1959]
[1960-1969]
[1970-1979]
[1980-1989]
[1990-1999]
[2000-2009]