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Potosi, MO - History
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Welcome to the Potosi Home page. The Potosi Home page provides as much information as possible on Potosi. Knowing Potosi’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Potosi’s Home page, you will also find Potosi’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Potosi has a population of 2572. 45.3% of Potosi’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.7 are female. 41.2% of Potosi is married and 49.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $98,204, and the average rent is $535. Household median income in Potosi is $32,835, and the individual median income is $19,058. Potosi’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.4%), Multiple(2.2%), Hispanic(1.6%), Black(1.2%), Native(0.2%), Asian(0.1%).
A lead mining settlement at this spot, "Mine à Breton" or Mine au Breton, was founded between 1760 and 1780 by Francis Azor, of Brittany, France. Moses Austin came here in 1798 with his family, including his son Stephen F. Austin. Moses obtained a grant of 7,153 arpents of land from the Spanish Empire and started large-scale mining operations, building his town to support it.
Moses named the town after Potosí in Bolivia, which was famous for its vast silver mines. Austin's tomb and the foundation of his home Durham Hall can still be seen. Another mining entrepreneur in Potosi at the time of Moses Austin was James Bryan. Firmin Rene Desloge, who emigrated from Nantes, France in 1822 as the progenitor of the Desloge Family in America, located in Potosi and established a mercantile, distillery, fur trading and lead smelting business.
The Desloge lead mining business Desloge Lead Company and later Desloge Consolidated Lead Company was later relocated to Bonne Terre, MO and also Desloge, MO by his son Firmin V. Desloge.Potosi was designated county seat in 1814.Potosi Is also home to the oldest standing Presbyterian church west of the Mississippi River.
It is located on West Breton Street, also home to the graveyard that contains the tomb of Moses Austin and his wife Maria Brown Austin.The Potosi Correctional Center, which opened in 1989, housed Missouri's death row and the state's executions were handled at the prison until 2005. The Potosi Center conducted all but one of the 62 Missouri executions between 1989 when capital punishment was reinstated and 2005 when executions were moved 25 miles east to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri.Woodcut artist Tom Huck grew up in Potosi, where he has taken inspiration from many of the region's local legends and folk tales.
In 1998, Huck released "2 Weeks in August: 14 Rural Absurdities", a suite of 14 woodcut prints based on bizarre tales from the town's history. The George Cresswell Furnace, Palmer Historic Mining District, Washington County Courthouse, and Washington State Park CCC Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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