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History of

Lincoln County, Missouri
This page last updated 24 February 2011

Lincoln County was organized December 14, 1818  (effective January 1, 1819) from St. Charles County, and named for Benjamin Lincoln, revolutionary war general.  In 1860, the population of Lincoln County, both white and black, was 14,210.   11,347 were white with 2,863 being listed as black.  The State of Missouri had a total population of 1,182,012 in 1860.

Checkout Lincoln County Tidbits of History page (below) for more on our county's history. We'll be adding to this page, so keep checking back.

County History

	Tidbits of Lincoln County History (a broad overview)
	Lincoln County in 1904
	History of Lincoln County, Missouri by Dr. Joseph A. Mudd, 1878,  Transcribed by Patricia (Jamerson) Archer, 2001.
	Comprehensive Index of Names to The History of Lincoln County, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888.  Indexed by Emily Wilson, 2007.  Note: This is a large Adobe Acrobat file.  You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view it.  You can get it here.  Emily will do lookups in this book.  Click here for her e-mail address.  Also, if you have suggestions for other Lincoln County books that need to be indexed, Emily would like to know about them.
	The First Settlers from History of Lincoln County, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888
	Pioneer Taxpayers in 1821 from History of Lincoln County, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888
	County Officers from History of Lincoln County, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888
	County Poor Asylum and Farm from History of Lincoln County, Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Company 1888
	PORTRAIT and BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD of ST. CHARLES, LINCOLN and WARREN COUNTIES, MISSOURI. Chicago: Chapman Publishing Co., 1895. On the St. Charles City-County Library District pages. Thanks to Neal Underwood for the link.
	Claudia Lasater's Blog: Author of "Out of Many Waters" -- Author's blog on the historical novel about the pioneering Howdeshell Family in Kentucky and Missouri.

Links to Other Historical Tracts

	A History of the Pioneer Families of Missouri Wm. S. Bryan and Robert Rose, 1876
	A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Lincoln County, Missouri Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser
	New book:  La Charrette: Village Gateway to the American West , Lowell M. Schake
	The 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World Fair)
	Index of names that appear in the tract Truxton and Nostalgia, prepared by Emily Wilson (who will do lookups in the original tract)

Townships

	Bedford
	Burr Oak
	Clark
	Cuivre Tract
	Hawk Point
	Hurricane
	Millwood
	Monroe
	Ninevah
	Prairie
	Snow Hill
	Union
	Waverly

Towns (Most town histories from Goodspeed's History of Lincoln County, 1888.)

	Alexandria
	Auburn
	Briscoe
	Brevator
	Cap-au-Gris
	Chain-of-Rocks
	Chantilla
	Elsberry "Elsberry", The History of Lincoln County, Missouri, (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888), p. 408. Foreword, introductory paragraphs and Index, The History of Elsberry, Missouri, 1673-1955, by Clarence Cannon, A.M., LL.B., LL.D., M.C.
	Falmouth
	Foley
	Hurricane
	Jonesville
	Louisville
	Moscow
	Moscow Mills
	New Hope
	New Salem
	Old Monroe
	Troy
	Truxton
	Whiteside
	Winfield

Area Church Histories

	History of Methodist Churches
	History of Presbyterian Churches
	History of Millwood and St. Alphonsus Parish
	Organized 1821 -- New Hope Baptist
	Organized 1822 -- Corinth Christian Church, Foley
	Organized 1831 -- First Presbyterian Church of Troy
	Organized 1831 -- Bryants Creek Baptist Church
	Organized 1834 -- Mt. Zion Associate Reformed Presbyterian
	Organized 1853 -- Asbury Methodist Church
	Organized 1867 -- Star Hope Baptist
	Organized 1869 -- Smith Chapel United Methodist
	Organized 1882 -- Methodist Episcopal (AME)
	Organized 1884 -- Lost Creek Baptist
	Organized 1887 -- First Christian (Disciples of Christ)
	Organized 1923 -- Church of God in Christ
	Organized 1885 -- Sugar Creek Church
	Organized circa 1822 -- Troy (now called Sand Run) Church

Cemetery Histories

	Highland Prairie Cemetery (established abt 1850)
	Wilson Chapel Cemetery