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History
Saline County was organized by European-American settlers on November 25, 1820 and was named from the salinity of the springs found in the region. After periods of conflict as settlers competed for resources and encroached on their territory, the local Native Americans, including the Osage nation, were forced by the U.S. government to move to reservations in Indian Territory, first in Kansas and then in Oklahoma.
Saline County was among several along the Missouri River that were settled primarily by migrants from the Upper South states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The settlers quickly started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco; they had brought enslaved people with them to central Missouri or purchased them from slave traders. These counties settled by southerners became known as "Little Dixie." By the time of the Civil War, one-third of the county population was negro; most of them were slaves on tobacco plantations. In 1847 the state legislature had prohibited any negro from being educated.
Adjacent Counties
Cities, Villages & Communities
Arrow Rock | Blackburn (part) | Blue Lick | Elmwood | Emma (part) | Fairville | Gilliam | Grand Pass | Hardeman | Herndon | Malta Bend | Marshall (County Seat) | Marshall Junction | McAllister Springs | Miami | Mount Leonard | Napton | Nelson | New Frankfort | Norton | Orearville | Pennytown | Ridge Prairie | Saline City | Salt Springs | Shackleford | Sharon | Slater | Sweet Springs
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