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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.
Monument at the temple site in Far West, Missouri.. Caldwell County was originally part of Ray County.The first white settler was Jesse Mann Sr., who settled one-half mile northeast of the public square of Kingston on Shoal Creek in 1831.
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.
Hawn's Mill was a mill established on the banks of Shoal Creek in Fairview Township, Caldwell County, Missouri in 1835–1836 by Jacob Hawn. [3] Hawn was the son of German emigrants to Canada, who resettled in New York, where Jacob was born.
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 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 ]
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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]