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St. Francois County is a county located in the Lead Belt region in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,922. The largest city and county seat is Farmington. The county was officially organized on December 19, 1821. It was named after the St. Francis River. The origin of the river's name is unclear. It might refer to St. Francis of Assisi. Another possibility is that Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit who explored the region in 1673, named the river for the Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Marquette had spent some time at the mission of St. François Xavier before his voyage and, as a Jesuit, was unlikely to have given the river a name honoring the Franciscans.
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The Desloge family, centered mostly in Missouri and especially at St. Louis, rose to wealth through international commerce, sugar refining, oil drilling, fur trading, mineral mining, saw milling, manufacturing, railroads, real estate, and riverboats. The family has funded hospitals and donated large tracts of land for public parks and conservation.
Prosperity is an unincorporated community in Jasper County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is northeast of Joplin and just southeast of Webb City, sitting east of Missouri State Highway 249.
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Adelbert is an extinct town in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The site is adjacent to the Missouri Pacific Railroad line on the west side of Mill Creek and one mile north of Mineral Point and southeast of Fountain Farm. Cadet lies approximately two miles to the northeast on Missouri Route 47.
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- ↑ "Joplin History & Mineral Museum". joplin-museum.org. Joplin History and Mineral Museum. 2021. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ↑ "Our Story". joplin-museum.org. Joplin History and Mineral Museum. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ↑ Price, Stuart (January 11, 2023). "What's new at Joplin's History and Mineral Museum?". KSNF. Joplin, Missouri. Retrieved May 8, 2023.