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Cape Girardeau (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d oʊ / jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Cape Girardeau UFO legend • NA, United States; Cape Girardeau, Missouri: A local legend gained wider attention in the 1980s when resident Charlotte Mann claimed in interviews that her father, Reverend William Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church, had administered last rites for the dying crew of a crashed flying saucer. [58] [59] [60] 1942 ...
Cape Girardeau: April 26, 1863 Cape Girardeau County: American Civil War Union-4,000, Confederacy- 5,000 337 United States vs. Confederate States Union victory Chalk Bluff: May 1–2, 1863 Dunklin County: American Civil War Union-120, Confederacy- 210 53 KIA, 104 WIA, 120 MIA, 53 POW United States vs. Confederate States Confederate pyrrhic victory
Of the five administrative districts, the newest was Cape Girardeau, founded in 1792 by trader Louis Lorimier as a trading post and settlement for newly arriving Americans. [36] The largest district, St. Louis, was the provincial capital and center of trade; by 1800, its district population stood at nearly 2,500. [20]
Detail Map of Fort D, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Work on Fort D began on August 6, 1861, under the direction of Lieutenant John W. Powell of Illinois. Later, Powell recruited a company of men from Cape Girardeau to serve in the Union army. Since Powell was from Illinois, these men were designated as Battery F, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery.
Cape Girardeau's Riverfront Park, located at 121 N. Water St., overlooks the Mississippi River. Portions of the riverfront are featured in the "Gone Girl" trailer. Greta Cross is the trending ...
Of the five administrative districts, the newest was Cape Girardeau, founded in 1792 by trader Louis Lorimier as a trading post and settlement for newly arriving Americans. The largest district, St. Louis, was the provincial capital and center of trade; by 1800, its district population stood at nearly 2,500.
Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties in the Missouri Territory after the US made the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer stationed 1704–1720 at Kaskaskia in the Illinois Country of New France.