STODDARD COUNTY HISTORY
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New Madrid County

New Madrid County 


Boekerton
Canalou
Conran
Lilbourn
Morehouse
Parma
Portageville

The Plank Road

The plank road that connected Clarkton to Point Pleasant.  Built between 1855-1860, it crossed the lowlands known as "Nigger Wool Swamp" and more of a series of bridges (as many as 146) than it was a solid foundation road.  During the Civil War the road was used extensively by M. Jeff Thompson's Missouri State Guard and was damaged by both sides while on campaign.  In 1873, the road was rebuilt as a pole road ten to twelve feet wide with "turn outs" for passing.

Quarantine

In September of 1878, New Madrid was under a strict quarantine rule.  No stranger was allowed to enter the town, and business was suspended entirely.  The city took drastic measures when Yellow Fever traveled up the Mississippi River to Hickman, Kentucky where several were taken ill and died (Poplar Bluff Citizen, September 20, 1878).  

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  • Home
  • Communities
    • Dexter >
      • Castor St.
      • Stoddard St.
      • Walnut St.
      • North of Tracks
      • Locust St & S. Main
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    • Bloomfield >
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    • Buffington
    • Essex >
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    • Bernie
    • Bell City
    • Brownwood
    • Dudley
    • Leora
    • Puxico
    • Acorn Ridge
    • Advance
    • Powe
    • Penermon
    • Communities Outside Stoddard >
      • Butler County >
        • Ash Hill
        • Fisk
        • Qulin
        • Poplar Bluff
        • Harviell
        • Neelyville
        • Rombauer
        • Lost Towns of Butler County >
          • Poplin
      • Dunklin County >
        • Kennett
        • Malden
      • Mississippi County >
        • Bird's Point
      • New Madrid County >
        • Boekerton
        • Canalou
        • Conran
        • Lilbourn
        • Morehouse
        • Parma
        • Portageville
      • Scott County >
        • Vanduser
      • Pemiscot County >
        • Hayti
        • Pascola
        • Caruthersville >
          • 1950 - 1985
      • Wayne County
  • Civil War & Other Periods
    • Post Reconstruction >
      • Swamp Drainage
      • Small Pox Outbreak, 1895
      • Spanish Influenza
      • Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1905
      • Crime & Punishment >
        • Stoddard County Sheriffs
      • Spanish-American War
      • Civil Rights Southeast Missouri
    • Reconstruction Era
    • Pre Civil War
    • The Civil War >
      • Union Stoddard County >
        • 2nd Mo State Militia Cavalry
        • 3rd MSM Cavalry
        • 12th MSM Cavalry
      • 1st Division Missouri State Guard
      • McDonald's & Parson's Batteries
      • 2nd Missouri Cavalry
      • 4th Missouri Cavalry (CS)
      • 7th Missouri Cavalry
      • 8th Missouri Cavalry
      • 12th Missouri Cavalry
      • 1st Confederate Infantry Btn
      • 6th Cavalry (Phelan's Regiment)
      • 6th Missouri Infantry >
        • Roster of Company D
        • Stoddard Countians in Company D
        • Roster Company K
  • Other Categories
  • Sources
  • Mr. Arnold's Classroom
    • Nat'l History Day
    • 7th Grade World History >
      • Unit 1 Intro & Geography
      • Unit 2 Page
      • Unit 3 England's Colonies
      • Unit 4 Colonies To Revolution
      • Unit 5 American Revolution
      • Unit 6 New Nation
      • Unit 7 - Early Republic
      • Unit 8 - Emergence Of American Economy
      • Unit 9 Nat'l & Sect
      • Chapt 10 - The South
      • Unit 11 - The Gathering Storm
      • Unit 12 Civil War
    • 8th Grade American History >
      • Unit 1 - Civil War Reconstruction
      • Unit 2 Bus & Labor
      • Unit 3 - New South
      • Unit 4 Gilded Age & Populism
      • Unit 5 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 6 - WWI
      • Unit 7 - The 1920s
      • Unit 8 - The Great Depression
      • Unit 9 - WWII
      • Unit 10 Post WWII to Korea
      • Unit 11 The Cold War in the 50s
      • Unit 12 - Turbulent 1960s
      • Unit 13 - Nixon & Ford Years
      • Unit 14 - Conservative Revival
      • Unit 15 - The 90s
      • Unit 16 - 9/11 To Present
      • Unit 17 - Global War on Terror
    • Government >
      • Unit 1 - Ideals of Democracy >
        • Chapter 1 - Ideals of Democracy
        • Chapter 2 Types of Democracy
        • Chapter 3 The Constitution
      • Unit 2 >
        • Chapter 4 Principles of Constitution
      • Unit 3 - Civil Liberties & Civil Rights
      • Unit 4 Civic Resp. & Civic Duty
      • Unit 5 American Political Ideologies & Beliefs
    • DC American History >
      • DC Unit 1 - Exploration/Colonization
      • Unit 2 - English Colonies
      • Unit 3 - F & I War To Revolution
      • Unit 4 - The Early Republic
      • Unit 5 - Age of Jackson
      • Unit 6 - Religion, Romanticism, & Reform
      • Unit 7 Westward Expansion
      • Unit 8 The Gathering Storm
      • Unit 9 The Civil War
      • Unit 10 - Reconstruction
      • Unit 11 The Industrial Era
      • Unit 12 - The New South and New West
      • Unit 13 - Imperialism & Reform
      • Unit 15 - The Great Depression
      • Unit 16 WWII
      • Unit 14 - WWI & the 1920s
      • Unit 17 - The Cold War & 1950s
      • Unit 18 The Vietnam Era
      • 2nd Semester Final
    • Contemporary Issues >
      • Unit 1 Am. Politics
      • Unit 2 Am Foreign Policy ME
      • Unit 3 Civil Liberties Terrorism
      • Unit 4 - Domestic Terrorism