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Missouri Facts |
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Callaway County Missouri was organized on November 25, 1820 and named for Captain James Callaway who was killed in a fight with Indians near Loutre Creek. |
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The present Capitol was completed in 1917 and occupied the following year is the third Capitol in Jefferson City and the sixth in Missouri history. |
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Saint Louis University received a formal charter from the state of Missouri in 1832, making it the oldest University west of the Mississippi. |
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