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Welcome to Callaway
County Missouri Genealogy Research
Callaway Bank circa 1889
My name is Bob
Jenkins and I created this
website to provide genealogy
information and links to genealogy
information to assist people in
researching
their Callaway County Missouri
ancestors.
I would appreciate any
contribution that you would like to
make to this site:
biographies, obituaries, birth,
marriage, death info, grave info,
photographs....etc
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Use the box below to
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Callaway
County Data
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Brief
History:
Callaway County is a county
located in the U.S. state of
Missouri. Its county seat is Fulton
With a border formed by the
Missouri River, the county was
organized November 25, 1820, and named for
Captain James Callaway, grandson of Daniel
Boone. The county has been
historically referred to as "The Kingdom
of Callaway" after an incident in which
some residents
confronted Union troops during the
U.S. Civil War.
Callaway County is part of the
Jefferson City, Missouri, Metropolitan
Statistical Area.
Vineyards and wineries were first
established in the area by German
immigrants in the mid-19th century. Among
the first
mentioned in county histories are
those around the southeastern Callaway
settlement of Heilburn, a community
neighboring
Portland, on the Missouri River.
Since the 1960s, there has been a revival
of winemaking there and throughout
Missouri.
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