Boothill (or maybe bootheel??) is that little square of land that protrudes south of the rest of the Missouri border...around Cape Girardeau area. I want to know why it was surveyed that way to form the state. patricia

Patricia, Have you looked up "Missouri History" on the internet? Or maybe the History of the Missouri Boot Heal? Betcha it's out there somewhere. Maybe they just didn't really want to be part of Arkansas. ;-) Pat, [email protected] wrote: >Boothill (or maybe bootheel??) is that little square of land that protrudes >south of the rest of the Missouri border...around Cape Girardeau area. I want >to know why it was surveyed that way to form the state. > >patricia > > >==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== >Looking for a town, postoffice, cemetery, creek, etc. >Try the mapping services at USGS GNIS. >http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Try this. http://www.sos.state.mo.us/archives/history/bootheel.asp Pat, [email protected] wrote: >Boothill (or maybe bootheel??) is that little square of land that protrudes >south of the rest of the Missouri border...around Cape Girardeau area. I want >to know why it was surveyed that way to form the state. > >patricia > > >==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== >Looking for a town, postoffice, cemetery, creek, etc. >Try the mapping services at USGS GNIS. >http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >