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Title
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Missouriana: Six-Mile Country
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Description
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Article about the the "origin of the term 'Six-Mile Country,' applied to the vicinity of what is now Sibley, in Jackson county, Missouri." Named at the establishment of nearby Fort Osage in 1808 for the area of the fort's land, "compris[ing] six square miles."
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Date
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1931-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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A Brief History of the Six Mile Territory
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Description
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This article was first printed in the Six Mile Baptist Cookbook. It gives the early history of the area, including notes about the Osage Indians, Fort Osage, Sibley, and what took place in the "six-mile" area during the beginning of settlement around 1804 through the Civil War. It includes names of ministers of the Six-Mile Baptist Church.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
