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Steelville, MO - History
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Welcome to the Steelville Home page. The Steelville Home page provides as much information as possible on Steelville. Knowing Steelville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Steelville’s Home page, you will also find Steelville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Steelville has a population of 1485. 47.1% of Steelville’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 43.8% of Steelville is married and 41% own their own home. The Average Home price is $78,410, and the average rent is $623. Household median income in Steelville is $33,889, and the individual median income is $20,548. Steelville’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.1%), Black(2%), Hispanic(1.2%), Multiple(0.7%), Other(0.7%), Asian(0.5%).
Before the 1800s, the first people to live in the Steelville area were groups likely tied to the Osage nation. These peoples were driven west into what became modern-day Oklahoma. In the 1830s, the Trail of Tears, a government-sponsored forced march of the largest groups of the southeastern United States, passed through Steelville, with people primarily from the Choctaw and Cherokee tribes.
They came mostly from Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee and were forced to relocate to Oklahoma and the West. It is believed that they stopped in Steelville around the spring to rest, bury their dead and get supplies.The first settlers in Steelville were William Britton, who built a small grist mill along the Yadkin Creek, and James Steel, who operated a trading post and was appointed by the government as commissioner to lay out the city in 1835 – the year in which Steelville was founded.
Britton remained in the area. Steel, according to census, moved northward to continue his interest in mining. Steel purchased 40 acres of land from the government, which he later sold to the "County Court" on December 16, 1835, for $50. By this time, a little settlement had sprung up. Crawford County Court named the town Steelville as the county seat.
The deed was recorded on December 18, 1835, the town was platted, and the first deeds to lots were sold for $12 each. The Snelson-Brinker House was built outside Steelville by Levi Lane Snelson in 1834 and sold to John B. Brinker in 1837. Mary, a 14-year-old slave owned by Brinker, was hanged at Steelville in 1838 for the murder of Brinker's infant daughter.
She is the youngest person to be legally executed in Missouri.The town was incorporated as a city of the fourth class in 1885. At this time, there were 500 inhabitants. The Lebanon Lodge, Masonic, was chartered on October 14, 1846. The first tailor, Mr. Vanburg, came in town in 1844. The first hotel was owned by James Davis.
In 1847, A. W. Johnson opened a blacksmith shop. Andrew Jackson opened the first post office. Doctor Dunlap was the first doctor. In 1838, J. H. Johnson opened the first saddle and harness shop.The Steelville Normal Business Institute was originally at Vichy. It was moved to Steelville with the help of John T.
Woodruff of Springfield and Professor Hayes and opened during the latter part of 1890. The first newspaper in Steelville, Steelville Crawford Missouri, was established on May 4, 1874, by Thomas Roberts. The paper was printed in a log cabin the first time and was a Republican paper. The Steelville Bank began operations in October 1884 under the direction of its president, G.
W. Matlock. This was constructed of brick and was very strong by the standards of that time. Later, the bank was named Crawford County Farmers Bank. In 1925, bank robbers made an attempt to rob it. Most of the robbers were killed. Robbers included Basil Doman, age 21, from Mitchell, Illinois. McCellan was wounded and died after being examined.
Albert Walters, age 20, from Granite City, Illinois, was the driver of the getaway car and was shot. The youngest, Leslie Reiter, age 16, from Madison, Illinois, was sent to jail. One robber was dead, two were wounded, one was taken prisoner and a fifth escaped. He was never caught or identified. The sheriff at the time was Mr.
Enke. There was only one citizen wounded – A. D. Schwieder – who was walking out of the adjoining store and was shot in the leg after a shoot out with one of the robbers, whom he killed.While this was not how the town got its name, Steelville was located in an active iron mining area. The Cherry Valley Iron Mines just east of Steelville opened in 1878, and had produced 736,800 tons of ore between 1878 and 1910.
The mines even created their own railway, the Crawford County Midland Railroad, to link with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway to provide needed haulage services. However, iron production was more or less exhausted by 1924.The Big Bend Rural School and Snelson-Brinker House are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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