
Tebbetts to N. Jefferson - Tebbetts, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 37.264 W 091° 57.552
15S E 590604 N 4275241
Quick Description: Today's North Jefferson is an area once the town of Cedar City...wiped away by the Great Flood of 1993.
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 9/22/2016 6:24:10 AM
Waymark Code: WMT44M
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Long Description:County of marker: Callaway County
Location of marker: CR-4011 & Katy Trail State Park Trailhead, Tebbetts
Marker erected: 2000
Marker erected by: Missouri Department of Natural Resources
"The distance from Tebbetts to North Jefferson is 12 miles. Katy Trail State Park passes through Wainwright, which was nemed after a St. Louis financier who helped establish the Missouri, Kansas & Eastern Railroad, later part of the Katy. Although the trail still parallels the Missouri River, it is closer to another mode of transportation -- Missouri Highway 94. Bluffs are on the right side of the trail with an agricultural landscape on the left.
"Côte Sans Dressein (milepost 134) or "hill without design (purpose)" runs parallel to the Missouri River. It is about a mile from the trail (on the left) and is a mile long ridge, 200 yards wide at the base and 150 feet high. Côte Hill, as it's known locally, is composed of dolomite. This "lost hill" was probably once connected to the bluffs on the south side of the Missouri River. French Canadians settled the Côte Sans Dresein area in 1808, when it was the westernmost settlement in the United States.
"In 1821, the commission to chose a state capital site wanted Côte Sans Dresein as the location. It fit the constitutional requirement of being within 40 miles of the mouth of the Osage River and on the banks of the Missouri River. The General Assembly selected what is now Jefferson City instead. Two of the reasons given for not selecting Côte Sans Dresein were controversy over land speculators and uncertainty of land ownership. A flood destroyed the village in 1844.