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Savannah was founded in 1841. [5] The city was named after Savannah Woods, the child of a first settler. [6] A post office called Savannah has been in operation since 1841. [7] The Andrew County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [8]
Andrew County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the county had a population of 18,135. [1] Its county seat is Savannah. [2]
The St. Joseph and Savannah Interurban Railway was a 13-mile interurban electric railway that ran between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Savannah, Missouri, from 1910 to 1939. Today, a tiny one-room waiting station still stands in a mostly residential neighborhood in Savannah.
Baker was born into slavery on August 3, 1859, in Savannah, Missouri. His mother, Betsy Mackay, died when he was three months old, leaving him to be brought up by the wife of his owner, Sallie Mackay, and his father, Abraham Baker. [1] He was the youngest of five children, Susie, Peter, Annie, and Ellen, all of whom were freed after the Civil ...
The "Missouri Crisis" was resolved at first in 1820 when the Missouri Compromise cleared the way for Missouri's entry to the union as a slave state. The Missouri Compromise stated that the remaining portion of the Louisiana Territory above the 36°30′ line was to be free from slavery. This same year, the first Missouri constitution was adopted.
Andrew County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri. It was built in 1898, and is a two-story, Romanesque Revival style rectangular brick and stone building. It projecting central entrance bay. It features a three-story clock tower with an octagonal ogee roof and similarly roofed smaller corner towers.
The history of slavery in Missouri began in 1720, predating statehood, with the large-scale slavery in the region, when French merchant Philippe François Renault brought about 500 slaves of African descent from Saint-Domingue up the Mississippi River to work in lead mines in what is now southeastern Missouri and southern Illinois. These were ...
Savannah High School is home to one of Missouri's premier quizbowl teams, having won six state championships. They have done well on a national level at the ASCN national Tournament of Champions, placing 7th in 2003 and 2004, 5th in 2005, 4th in 1995, and winning the championship in 1988.