Farmers Bank Building

Among the earlier settlers were Geo. Cloudis of Virginia, Benedict Stemple of Germany, John Fuchs, - Wolfl', Michael Wagner and John Coleman, who settled here in 1836. Maj. George Diegel who represented this county in the lower house of the state assemblj% and was afterward elected state register of lands came in 1843. All the first settlers of Egypt township located along the bluff that skirts the bottom land on the west, about seven miles from the Missouri river, and opened farms in the prairie bottom. John Deiterich and John Fox located their farms in the spring of 1841 in a northwesterly direction from where Norborne now stands. Other settlers soon followed, among w'hom were Jack Dresber, Stotts, Knipschildt, Samuel Metcalf, Wm. Marlow from Kentucky, and John Lee. Few if any settlements were made on the bottom lands proper until after 1850, the settlers deeming the low-lands of little value for cultivation. Besides their means for building being limited, and the material being too heavy for transportation any distance, they wisely concluded to ereet their rude residences near the bluffy timber where the hewn logs were easy of access, and where, also, they would find protection from the storms from the west.

Passage source: History of Carroll County, Missouri : Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri ; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri ; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ; General and Local Statistics ; Miscellany ; Reminiscences, Grave, Tragic and Humorous ; Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Citizens Identified with the Interests of the Country, published 1881.

Norborae takes its name from Norborne B. Coats,' who wdth John Dietrich, the original owner of the land, on which the town is built, founded the' village in 1868. The first incorporation took place in 1874, when a full set of town officers was chosen. - The town is located on the east half of the northwest of section 23, and is ten miles west of Carrollton, on the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad. The first dwelling house was built by Harvey McCoy, the first store was kept by January & Snoddy; the first school taught was by J. N. Cunningham, in the Lutheran church.

Passage source: History of Carroll County, Missouri : Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources, Including a History of Its Townships, Cities, Towns and Villages, Together with a Condensed History of Missouri ; the Constitution of the United States, and State of Missouri ; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ; General and Local Statistics ; Miscellany ; Reminiscences, Grave, Tragic and Humorous ; Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men and Citizens Identified with the Interests of the Country, published 1881.

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