Stoney Battery
Iron County, Missouri 
was formed in 1857 from parts of Madison, Reynolds, St. Francois, Washington, and Wayne Counties;
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- Stoney Battery: is near (Des Arc MO).
I am a member of Stoney battery lodge, and we are not all Doctors,
( ok I am a Dr. but not medical) most of us are just plain folks. My family bought our cabin for $1,000 in 1954. While most of us fish, I haven't ever heard it referred to as a Fishing Camp. It is a very historic site. It was part of the Virginia settlement started in the mid-1700s in attempt to get Americans to settle Spanish upper Louisiana. Part of Stoney Battery on the old Spanish land grant "in french," called the Domitile DuHaute, (house of Haute) grant. During the Civil War many troops were stationed there as it was a way-point between the Union Fort at Patterson and Pilot Knob. The telegraph crossed big creek there. There were several battles fought there one in which 45 Union soldiers were killed. I have a box of minnie balls from the civil war that I picked up over the years. The location was also a Paleo-Indian site about six thousand years ago and many paleo and late woodland dart points have been found at the battery. I have shoe boxes of them as well. Both upstream and down stream on the other side of the creek are major woodland villages that have points from Cakokia, il found there as well. The Ruble family were some of the first settlers coming in 1805, their names were originally (Ruebottom) and for about a dozen years the Delaware Indians lived at the battery on their way eventually to Oklahoma. They complained to the Spanish governor in New Madrid about the Osage (Wassasia) Indians stealing horses from them. On some of the rocks overlooking the swimming hold you can see faint crosses carved into the rocks where the Delaware carved them as this bunch were Christians.
Submitted by Dr. Charles W. Stewart
(academic Doctor) Poster-#-42-
Towns and wide places in the road in
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