Interim Content
Lexington, Missouri
Summary
Located on high bluffs on southeast bank of Missouri River, about forty miles east of Independence. Area settled, 1817. Selected as county seat, by 1823. City charter obtained, 1845. Population in 1840 about 2,400. Commercial, steamboat, ferrying, and outfitting center for western Missouri and Santa Fe Trail. Rich coal fields in area. Residence of Alexander Doniphan, legal defender of Saints, 1830–1833. Many Saints passed through Lexington as settlers or missionaries, beginning 1831.
Links
papers
- Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–A
- Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–B
- Certificate for Land Patent, 8 September 1836
- Declaration, 21 June 1834
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–A
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–B
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–B, Copy
- Land Patent, 7 September 1838–C
- Receiver’s Office, Receipt, 22 June 1836–A
- Receiver’s Office, Receipt, 22 June 1836–B
- Receiver’s Office, Receipt, 8 September 1836
- Town/City
- Lexington
- County
- Lafayette County
- State/Province
- Missouri
- Country:
- United States of America