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    Shawneetown is an unincorporated community in Shawnee Township in northern Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. It is located twenty miles north...
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  • Burfordville, Gordonville, Millersville, New Wells, Pocahontas, most of Shawneetown, and small sections of Cape Girardeau. It was established in 1920. One...
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  • Company Home Guard Infantry Stone County Regiment Home Guard Infantry Shawneetown (putnam County) Home Guard Company Infantry Sullivan County Home Guard...
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    homes blown away. Grazulis March 27 1890 United States Missouri, Illinois Shawneetown (Missouri), Grand Tower, Poplar Ridge, Carbondale (Illinois) 7 (80...
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    Moccasin Springs Neely's Landing New Wells Oriole Randles Rum Branch Shawneetown Tilsit Jacob M. Appel, novelist William F. Barnes, former head football...
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    River. Other important early outposts in Southern Illinois were at Old Shawneetown and Fort Massac on the Ohio River. After defeating the French in the...
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    making it the third-least populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Shawneetown. It is located in the southern portion of Illinois known locally as Little...
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    William Quantrill (category People of Missouri in the American Civil War)
    on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1855–1865 In Kansas, Confederate guerrillas attack and burn Shawneetown for the second time Archived...
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  • road across Illinois, from the Goshen Settlement to the salt works near Shawneetown. The trail crossed the state diagonally following a route from Peter's...
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    message blamed the Whig-controlled state bank and the Bank of Illinois at Shawneetown for Illinois' financial distress, which added to hardships encountered...
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    Frank C. Millspaugh (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    1872 – July 8, 1947) was a United States Representative from Missouri. Born in Shawneetown, Illinois, Millspaugh attended public schools. He entered the...
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  • Jasper County, Missouri, May 16–19 (detachment). Sherwood, Missouri, May 18. Bush Creek May 24. Near Fort Gibson May 28. Shawneetown, Kansas, June 6...
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    Shawnee (category Native American tribes in Missouri)
    Lower Shawneetown) in Ohio, Chalakagay near what is now Sylacauga, Alabama, Chalahgawtha at the site of present-day Chillicothe, Ohio, Old Shawneetown, Illinois...
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    spots on the levees without surmounting them.: 47  The historic city of Shawneetown was completely inundated and the residents were forced to move to a tent...
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    Cincinnati and Louisville, and from Tennessee and Kentucky across the Ohio at Shawneetown, just below the Wabash junction. Thus the Basin became the great staging...
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  • Buckeye Creek (Apple Creek tributary) (category Rivers of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
    flows north to northeast passing under I-55 and U.S. Route 61 west of Shawneetown. Its confluence with Apple Creek is approximately two miles east of Old...
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  • Southern Illinois tornado history (category Perry County, Missouri)
    Tri-State Tornado Ravage of Murphysboro (NIU Library) Tri-State Tornado: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, March 1925 (Popular Mechanics) The 1925 Tornado (Carolyar...
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    Then, the route continues eastward through Shawneetown and then Old Shawneetown before crossing the Shawneetown Bridge over the Ohio River. At that point...
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    Kentucky extends about 60 miles north-northeastward from just north of the Shawneetown and Rough Creek Fault Zones. A Magnitude 5.2 quake took place in the...
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    on the James Fork of the White River in Missouri. These lands, in what is now Kansas, were west of the Missouri and north of the Kansas River. The main...
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    state, though originally known as "Shawneetown". Marion County was formed in 1836, shortly after statehood. Shawneetown was then renamed Yellville. An old...
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    fatalities, but damage estimates there and in smaller communities such as Shawneetown, Illinois, and Caseyville, Kentucky, was in excess of $5 million. Along...
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    John A. McClernand (category People from Shawneetown, Illinois)
    near Hardinsburg, on May 30, 1812, but in 1816, his family moved to Shawneetown, Illinois. His early life and career were similar to that of another...
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  • List of newspapers owned by GateHouse Media (category Mass media in Missouri)
    County weekly newspapers: Ridgway News of Ridgway Gallatin Democrat of Shawneetown Wabash Valley Olney Daily Mail of Olney Daily Mail Group weeklies: Advocate...
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  • Flatrock Creek (Apple Creek tributary) (category Rivers of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri)
    50306°N 89.65778°W / 37.50306; -89.65778. The stream flows north past Shawneetown and on to its confluence with Apple Creek at 37°35′12″N 89°38′23″W /...
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    places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2020, there were a total of 131 census-designated places in Missouri. "2020 Decentennial Census". United...
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    Red Bud Robinson Roxana Rosiclare Salem Scott Air Force Base Sesser Shawneetown Shiloh Sims Smithton Sparta St. Elmo St. Francisville Staunton Sumner...
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    charters of the Illinois State Bank, as well as the Bank of Illinois in Shawneetown. Ford worried this would scare eastern financiers, whose loans were needed...
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    Clements (Shawneetown) Bridge Old Shawneetown, Illinois / Union County, Kentucky, USA 251.5 826   1955 [13] * Cairo I-57 Bridge Charleston, Missouri / Cairo...
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    Mary Simmerson Cunningham Logan (category People from Boone County, Missouri)
    President Franklin Pierce appointed him register of the land office at Shawneetown, Illinois. He was also a member of the Legislature of Illinois in 1845...
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