. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. , RUNS WICK, the second town in Chtiriton county, in point of population and age, was laid out on section 11, township 53, range 20, in 1836, by James Keyte, the founder of Keytesville, and by whom it was named after Brunswick (Tennis) near Manchester, England, Mr. Keyte being an Englishman. When the town was originally laid out, it Avas located on the bank of the Missouri river, and about live hundred yards south of the present site. Due to the mad whirl-pools and insidious eddies of that treacherous st
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. , RUNS WICK, the second town in Chtiriton county, in point of population and age, was laid out on section 11, township 53, range 20, in 1836, by James Keyte, the founder of Keytesville, and by whom it was named after Brunswick (Tennis) near Manchester, England, Mr. Keyte being an Englishman. When the town was originally laid out, it Avas located on the bank of the Missouri river, and about live hundred yards south of the present site. Due to the mad whirl-pools and insidious eddies of that treacherous stream, nothing of the old site now remains. Some twenty years after the location of the city, the few business houses and residences left standing, were removed to the base of the blulls, at the present site. The first house put up was a log building and was occupied byJames Keyte, for mercantile purposes. About the same time started a saw mill, which was the first mill of the kind everstarted in the township. Soon after the town was laid out, Peter , and two men by the
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