BlockCream Ridge Township
The complete chapter on this township from Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913. 237 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chula | - | 22 | 1 | - |
| Farmersville | - | 6 | 1 | - |
| Niantic | - | - | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 3 is named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
237 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Cream Ridge Township
This township includes portions of ranges 23 and 24, lying between Grand river and Medicine township and the line between townships 58 and 59. On the western boundary flows Grand river, on the east Honey creek and small branches tributary as well as Medicine creek. Honey creek empties into Grand river near the southwest corner of the township. In 1838, perhaps the first settler was Francis Preston, who located on Crooked creek in February, on 19-59-23. In 1839 Josiah Austin settled a short distance north of Preston, while Gabriel May and Solomon Hooker located in the township and near Preston in 1840. Like the land in Medicine township, it was not in the market for entry until 1 840, and many entries were made in that year. Some of the early settlers were S. T. Crews, C. H. Ashby, M. F. Treadway, Joseph Hughes, Richard Dicken, Lyman Dayton, Willis Atkinson, Elizabeth Crawford and James Leeper. George P. Pullian and Margaret Preston, daughter of the first settler mentioned, was the first matrimonial venture in the township. A slave woman named Susan, the property of Preston, was the first person to die in the township. The organization of the township bears date May 13, 1857, Thomas Crooks and others being petitioners. Farmersville, nine miles north of Chillicothe, on the road to Trenton, is in this township. A good school, several churches and lodge organizations are found in the village.
Provenance
Text from Past and Present of Livingston County, Missouri : a Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, published 1913, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.