1826 map of the State of Missouri, with counties, mountains, towns and rivers included. Arkansas Territory is also mapped out similarly. Native American villages are noted to the west of Missouri., From: A new American atlas designed principally to illustrate the geography of the United States of North America, in which every country in each state and territory of the Union is accurately delineated, as far as at present known : the whole compiled from the latest and most authentic information. / A. Finley
From The Historical, Chronological and Geographical American Atlas. Philadelphia: Carey and Lea: 1823. Depicts Missouri at the time of statehood, which happened in 1820.
The Belle Creole was built in 1823 at Cincinnati, Ohio. Her home port was New Orleans and she was a New Orleans-Bends packet. Captain Champremere was her master. She foundered and sank in 1829. This photograph was reproduced from an old sketch made at New Orleans, Louisiana.
One letter, dated May 2, 1828, to the Honorable James Barbour, regarding the recommendation of Thomas McNight for the appointment of superintendent of the Upper Lead Mines.