File prepared and contributed to Lincoln County Missouri History Page by Patricia SummersSmith, 1998.  Link change or update: 4 Dec 1999

From The History of Lincoln County, Missouri, (Chicago : Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1888), p. 413.

FALMOUTH.

Falmouth (Westport) is a landing on a side channel of the Mississippi, about two and a half miles east of Elsberry. It was surveyed and laid out as a town October 12, 1836, on lands of James FINLEY, Charles COX and John GALLOWAY, on the fractional Section 24, Township 51 north, Range 2 east; acknowledged before E. H. POWERS, justice of the peace. Formerly this was a place of considerable business, being the place where Uncle Hiram WOMMACK, well known throughout Lincoln County, made his start in life. At that time all stock and grain of the northeastern part of the county were shipped by river from Falmouth, while all the necessary merchandise for the people of that vicinity was shipped by the river to this point. The building of the railroad and the establishment of Elsberry was the death knell to Falmouth. Elsberry has absorbed the business, and left Falmouth only its name and the place of its former greatness.

File prepared and contributed to Lincoln County Missouri History Page by Patricia SummersSmith, 1998.  Link change or update: 4 Dec 1999

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