. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. aid out in a very irregularmanner, it being a coiumon tradition in thetown that the streets were originally deter-mined bj corn rows. Its present populationis 914. The papers in the town are theWayne County Jovrnal, which is Democratic 272 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 273 in politics, and the Greenville Siui, Republi-can. Piedmont Piedmont is a city of the fourth class sit-uated in Benton township, Wayne county, onthe St. Louis, Iron Mountain & SouthernRailway. It was laid
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. aid out in a very irregularmanner, it being a coiumon tradition in thetown that the streets were originally deter-mined bj corn rows. Its present populationis 914. The papers in the town are theWayne County Jovrnal, which is Democratic 272 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 273 in politics, and the Greenville Siui, Republi-can. Piedmont Piedmont is a city of the fourth class sit-uated in Benton township, Wayne county, onthe St. Louis, Iron Mountain & SouthernRailway. It was laid out at the completion ofthe Iron Mountain road to that point about1860. It was made the division point of therailroad, the repair shops were erected andthe town prospered very greatly. In 1888 Patterson Patterson, a town in Logan township,Wayne county, dates its beginning back tothe year 1854. It was then known as Isbellsstore, owing to the fact that Isbell was thefirst, and for a number of years the onlymerchant in the town. DeSoto DeSoto, the largest town in Jeffersoncounty, is situated on the St. Louis, Iron. High School, DeSoto about one-half of the business part of thetown was destroyed by fire, and it has hadother destructive fires since that time. It hasrevived from these damages, however, and isnow a prosperous and growing has good streets and sidewalks, electriclights, four churches, a good publii; school,which is housed in a modern school building,two banks, a flouring mill and about twentyother business enterprises of various Piedmont Banner is a weekly paper pub-lished by Bristol French. There are three banks in the town with acombined capital of .$55,000. The presentpopulation is 1,154. Vol. 1—18 Mountain & Southern Railway forty-sevenmiles south of St. Louis. It is built partlyin the valley of Joachim creek and partly onthe hills overlooking the valley. The firstresident on the site of the town was VanHome, who opened a farm here in 1808.
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