Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE OLD 1855 ROAD 
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THE OLD 1855 ROAD
	Narrators:  George Fine of Oklahoma and others

     This road is important to our study, because Hamilton is built on this 
road.  Before A.G. Davis built the first house in this town, the old State 
road went through the place.  It led from Richmond to Gallatin (north in 
Daviess county).  At the time of the early fifties and before that, it was the 
only thoroughfare connecting Daviess county and this section of the country 
with the Missouri river.  All the merchandise consumed by the inhabitants of 
these parts was transported over this old road by ox-teams, which would carry 
it from Camden, in Ray county, the nearest point on the river.
     In 1855, the stage coach line between Gallatin and Lexington was 
established, and the newly built Davis Hotel in Hamilton (@ 1856) became one 
of the stations.  Prior to this, there seemed to have been a semi-weekly mail 
hack which ran from Richmond to Gallatin.
     This old State road is mentioned by old timers even in memories of the 
early seventies, such people living in the district south of Hamilton.  The 
narrator, George Fine, now in seventies, is a son of Elder Fine who lived 
along the road and he told his son much of the foregoing facts.  From the farm 
of Elder William Fine, who lived two and a half miles north of Hamilton, in 
the 60s and 50s, to the town of Kingston to the south, but two houses could be 
seen, on Tom Creek, one owned by Samuel Hill, one by Silas Dodge, both well 
known pioneers in the county before 1860.
     Interview  1935.


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