Canton Missouri
by Larry Braun
Title
Canton Missouri
Artist
Larry Braun
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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North Fourth Street
Lewis County
Photo taken on November 7, 2019
Great River Road Series
A post office since 1853; on the Mississippi River, it is at Canton that the river takes its boldest sweep westward, making a beautiful semi- circle before the town. A settlement was made here as early as 1827, though the first settler, Captain William Pritchard, came to the vicinity in 1819. The town was surveyed by 1830 the plat being filed in Marion County in February of that year, and transferred to Lewis County the year of its organization, 1833 and incorporated in 1851. Canton was an important steamboat point, and has become the largest town in the county. When the railroad arrived in 1871, Canton became one of the most important towns in northeast Missouri. Canton was named for the town of the same name in Ohio.
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