xxii CONTENTS CHAPTER XIX NEW MADRID AND MADISON COUNTIES Blows to New Madrid — Incorporated as a City — Long the County Seat — Point Pleasant — PORTAGEVILLE FreDERICKTOWN. 265 CHAPTER XX WASHINGTON AND PERRY COUNTIES PoTOsi Laid Out and Incorporated— Old Mines — Caledonia — Perryville — Longtown Altenburg. 269 CHAPTER XXI WAYNE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES Greenville, Early and Late — Piedmont — Patterson — DeSoto — Crystal City — Her- cuLANEUM — Hillsboro — KiMMSwicK — Hematite. 272 CHAPTER XXII ST. FRANCOIS, BOLLINGER AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES Present-Day Bismarck — Libertyville — Farmington — Marble Hill — Lutesville — Gay- oso — Caruthersville. 277 CHAPTER XXIII DUNKLIN AND MISSISSIPPI Old-Time Kennett — Modern Town Dates from Railroad — Clarkton — Hornersville — Mississippi County Seat — Charleston of the Present — Belmont. 284 CHAPTER XXIV TOWNS OF SIX COUNTIES Commerce Incorporated — Benton, Scott County Seat — Sikeston — Doniphan, County Seat of Ripley — Poplar Bluff, Butler County's Seat of Justice — Bloomfield, Stod- dard County — Ironton, County Seat of Ironton — Arcadia — Lesterville — Smaller Settlements. 290 CHAPTER XXV POLITICAL, CIVIL AND MILITARY The First State Election — Contest for the Senatorship — The Eight Counties-^Courts IN Each County — Organization of New Counties — Southeast Missouri in the Mex- ican War. 299
