This week the timeline will start at 1820 and go to when the town of Papinville was established. Many explorers and fur traders came up the Osage and Marais Des Cygne rivers to the American Fur Company. The fur company is said to have been about where the new bridge is located in Papinville. The explorers that we know of that came to visit and trade with the Osage Indians were Zebulon Pike, Lewis and Clark.
The Osage Indians had
been to Washington D.C. to talk to the president to see if he could send some
people to the area to help his people learn more about living the civil
lifestyle. THe Osage knew that more people were moving west.
This is the beginning of
the timeline this week with the missionaries coming to settle Harmony Mission.
1821
March 7 Missionaries
left New York for Harmony Mission
August 6 Missionaries
landed at Halley's Bluff area on the Osage River south of Papinville
August 10 Missouri
became a state
August 13 Mission site
reached and settlement began
1822 School began at
Harmony
1823 First school
building completed
1832 Melicourt
Papin settles in this area at Rapids de Kaw located on the north side of the
Osage River
1833 John Chorelle
erected a mill on the Marais des Cygnes. This was located south of the Marais
des Cygnes river bridge on B highway
1834 Papin and Gerard
had settled at Colins Ford. They both worked for the American Fur Company as
traders
1836 Harmony Mission and
school closes
1837 The children of the
missionaries attended a school in a barn located at the George Douglass farm
1838 Captain Waldo
brings goods to Harmony by wagon and oxen to open the first store in Harmony.
Freeman Barrows was the manager
1841 Bates County was
organized at Harmony site and the name changed to Batesville. First post
office.
1842 Presbyterian Church
was organized
1844 Captain Waldo
navigated a steamboat (The Wave) from St Louis to Harmony Mission
1846 Waldo navigated
steamboat (Maid of the Osage) to Harmony
Next week the timeline
will start in 1847 and end at the end of the Civil War 1865. Don't forget the
date of the picnic September 26. I will have some information on the activities
of the picnic. Until next week.
Submitted by Phyllis
Stewart
