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Caruthersville
Pemiscot County,
Missouri 
was formed in 1851
from New Madrid County;
the county seat is
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Caruthersville in Pemiscot County
Mo
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Caruthersville
- Caruthersville:
It is a city of the fourth class in Little Prairie Township, six miles southeast of Gayoso.
It occupies a site near the old town of Little Prairie, of which it was the successor, and for
many years was called Lost Village.
In 1857 a town site was laid out by Colonel John H. Walker and George W. Bushey, and
called Caruthersville in honor of Honorable Samuel Caruthers.
Its growth was slow until the building of the St. Louis, Kennett & Southern Railway of
which it is the eastern terminus. It had Baptist, Catholic and Methodist Episcopal Churches,
a graded school, two banks, four saw-mills, stove factory and wood work factory,
two newspapers and an electric lighting plant. The population in 1900 was 2,315.
(Encyclopedia of the History of Mo., 1901, Conrad, Vol. 1,)
Samuel Caruthers, born Oct. 13, 1820, died July 20, 1860, was elected to
Congress in 1852, and re-elected twice in succession, serving in the Thirty-third,
Thirty-fourth and Thirty-fifth Congresses.
Caruthersville is first listed as the county seat of
Pemiscot County in Missouri Manual, 1901-02, p. 211.
It is in the east central part of the county, on the Mississippi River.
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