This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZMB.2ACI/1666 Message Board Post: Taken from the book: "Goodspeed's History of Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Crawford & Gasconade Counties Missouri" History of Missouri chapters, page 184 giving, "Dates of the organization of the counties, origin of their names, etc." Christian {county name}--Organized March 8, 1860. Named probably for a county in Kentucky. NOTE: This book was originally published in 1888. My reprint is from 1970. Information given here was from the original time period so county seats may have changed.