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Richmond, Missouri

Summary

Area settled, ca. 1814. Officially platted as Ray Co. seat, 1827. Population in 1840 about 500. Seat of Fifth Judicial Circuit Court of Missouri; also location of courthouse and jails. JS and about sixty other Latter-day Saint men were incarcerated here while awaiting hearing by Judge Austin A. King on charges connected with “Mormon War,” Nov. 1838.

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Township
Richmond Township
Town/City
Richmond
County
Ray County
State/Province
Missouri
Country:
United States of America