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Kingston is a city in Caldwell County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area with the United States. The population was 290 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Caldwell County.
Caldwell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located in Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri, USA. It was built between 1896 and 1898 and is a two-story red-brick building, set upon a regular ashlar foundation. The building measures 74 by 69 feet (23 by 21 m). It has a truncated slate hip-roof, with a square-plan cupola and a bell-dome roof.
Kingston Township covers an area of 35.21 square miles (91.2 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Kingston (the county seat). It contains two cemeteries: Brown and Dustin. The streams of Goose Creek, Jim Creek, Log Creek, Long Creek, Mill Creek and Tub Creek run through this township.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The settlers established Salem, the first town in the county, two miles southeast of Kingston. A larger number of Mormons moved to the county in the fall of 1836. The Missouri General Assembly created Caldwell County in December 1836, with the understanding that it would be dedicated to Mormon settlers. Its county seat was Far West, Missouri ...
The county seat was moved to Kingston, Missouri [6] and many of the log houses in Far West were relocated. John Whitmer continued to live in the nearly empty town, where he owned a large farm. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints purchased the temple site and some of the surrounding area in 1909. [ 7 ]
James M. McDonald Sr. was born July 20, 1881, in Kingston, Missouri, the fourth of five sons of Daniel G. McDonald, who operated a mercantile store in Hamilton, Missouri, that was part of a chain called the Cash-Cowgill Company. Working for his father gave McDonald his first taste of the merchandising business.
Born in Kingston, Missouri, Hughes attended the common schools and graduated from Richmond (Mo.) College in 1871. He then graduated from the law department of the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1873, was admitted to the bar in 1877, and commenced practice at Richmond, Missouri. He moved to Denver, Colorado in 1879.