Pike County, Missouri
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Pike County is a county on the eastern border of the U.S. state of Missouri, bounded by the Mississippi River. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,587. Its county seat is Bowling Green. Its n
The Pike County Courthouse in Bowling Green
Clarksville, Missouri
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Clarksville is a city in Calumet Township, Pike County, Missouri, United States. The population was 372 at the 2020 census.
Pike County, Missouri
…and 1921. Among those were Curtis and Sam Young, who were both lynched for allegedly murdering the city marshall, Walter Meloan, on June 6, 1898, in Clarksville, a small town on the Mississippi River. Pike tied with Howard County, Missouri for the highest number of lynchings of African Americans in the state…
Clarksville, Missouri in June 2018
Sandbagging of low-lying areas on the Mississippi River, June 2008
Soldiers of the Missouri Army National Guard sandbag the Mississippi River, June 2008.