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Pre-Statehood 1804 District of Louisiana showing settlements 1812 Territory of Missouri 1813 Territory of Missouri - Washington county added 1816 Territory of Missouri - More new counties added including Arkansas 1818 Map bounderies of Missouri as suggested in 1818

Post-Statehood 1821 First state counties 1834 More counties added 1835 Principle Highways and Waterways to Trans-Appalachia - Includes Wilderness Road 1841 Final state bounderies - More added counties 1845 Osage county included 1860 Maries and Phelps counties included

New Maps from the Rumsey Collection
1747	1755	1814	1822	1823	1833

Localized Maps
1846	A New Map for Travellers through the United States of America showing the Railroads, Canals and Stage Roads - Published by Sherman & Smith
1859	Johnson's New Railroad & Township Cooper-plate Map of Illinois, Iowa & Missouri - Pubished by Johnson & Browning.  Notice the shape of Maries County at this time!  Entered in 1857.
1861	Military Map of the Middle and Southern States showing the Seat of War during the Great Rebellion in 1861 - Published by W. Schaus.
1863	Lloyd's New Map of the United States...showing every railroad & station finished to June 1862 - Published by J.T. Lloyd
ca 1870	Oshawa Post Office request location map - Osage/Gasconade County boarder
1873	Map showing the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and Leased Lines - Published by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co.
1875	Cram Atlas Company, New York; Cram's Railroad and Township Map of Missouri.  Shows Lacon spelled as Bacon.  Also shows Gasburg, Prior's Mill, etc.
1878	Official Railroad Map of Missouri - Published by Edwards Brothers - This map shows the proposed railroad that would have completely bypassed Osage County
1892	Family Atlas of the United States, Compiled for the World's Fair Educational Association; Rand, McNally & Co.
1895	The New 11x14 Map of the World; Rand McNally Corporation - This one shows Jersey, the illusive post office near Summerfield, but wait...what is Frankenstein doing where Freeburg should be?  possible explanation
1897	Galbraith's Railway Mail Service Map of Missouri - Looks like most Post Offices are shown here for the tri-county area
1901	Missouri (Railroad Map) - Geo. F. Cram - Shows ST.K.C.&C. (St Louis, Kansas City & Colorado) railroad ending at Belle.  Note: Jersey PO misplaced.
1904	The State of Missouri, Walter William, 1904.
1913	This one is after the Rock Island Railroad was built and includes Gascondy, Summerfield, Belle and other railroad towns.  I've lost my source on this map!
ca 1920s	Clason's Guide Map of Missouri - Clason Map Co.

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Sources

A History of Missouri, Frederic A. Culmer, 1939 Maps of: 1804, 1813, 1818	Chris Cooper 1870 Oshawa Post Office Map
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division Map extracts of: 1846, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1863, 1873, 1878, 1897 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html	Livingston County MIGenWeb - by Pam Rietsch Scan of 1895 Rand McNally Map http://www.livgenmi.com/
Lucinda Brands Donation of the 1878 and 1901 maps	May Bacon-Leach Loan of the 1913 Osage County Plat Map
MoGenWeb web site Maps of: 1812, 1816, 1821, 1834, 1841, 1845, 1860 http://www.rootsweb.com/~mogenweb/mo.htm	Missouri Ozarks - by Linda Jo Webb Clason's Guide Map of Missouri by Clason Map Co., Denver, Colorado, circa 1920s - Scans of Counties http://ozarks.smsu.edu/Index.html
The State of Missouri, Walter William, 1904 Maps of Gasconade, Maries and Osage Counties	The Stream of American History, Baldwin - Kelly, 1965 Map of Principle Highways and Waterways in 1835
The Rumsey Collection Maps of 1747, 1755, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1833, 1875 http://www.davidrumsey.com/