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BISMARCK
(A Brief Authentic History)

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Birds-Eye View of Bismarck, Early 1900's�

Bismarck, situated in the western part of St. Francois County, owes its origin and early growth to the farming interests about it and its location at the intersection of the Belmont branch with the main line of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway. Bismarck was first laid out and surveyed in 1868. The owners of the property on which the first survey was made were Charles T. Manter, Mary E. Manter, his wife, Philip R. Van Frank, J. H. Worthy, and Frances Worthy, his wife, and E. H. Cordell. The railroad ran through the town from the northwest to the southeast. All of the original streets of Bismarck, with the exception of Main and Center, were named after trees. They were Mulberry, Spruce, Cedar, Pine, Maple, Hazel, Cherry, Walnut and Elm.

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Residential Street in Bismarck

In 1877 Bismarck was incorporated as a town by the County Court and the first trustees were William H. Gullivan, Benjamin Schoch, C. C. Grider, George H. Kelly and A. H. Tegmeyer. In the year 1881 this incorporation was abolished. Since that time Bismarck has been reincorporated. The population about 1910 was 848. It is now about 1200.

Published in a BRIEF AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MISSOURI. Compiled by J. Tom Miles, A.M. and Published in The Farmington News in Ten Chapters September 13 to November 15, 1935. Printed in booklet form through the courtesy of J. Clyde Akers, County Superintendent of Schools.

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