Callaway County, Missouri
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Callaway County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the county's population was 44,283. Its county seat is Fulton. With a border formed by the Misso
Callaway County Courthouse in Fulton
Little Dixie (Missouri)
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Little Dixie is a historic 13- to 17-county region along the Missouri River in central Missouri, United States. Its early Anglo-American settlers were largely migrants from the hemp and tobacco distri
Callaway County, Missouri
…cultivating hemp and tobacco, the same crops as were grown in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky. Given their culture and traditions, this area became known as Little Dixie. By 1860, enslaved people made up at least 25 percent of the county's population, higher than in most parts of the state. Some pioneer families from…
Percentage of slaves by county in the slave states in 1860. Little Dixie's isolation from the core slaveholding regions of the South is apparent.