Category: Marceline

by Hank Miller Letter from the Santa Fe Town and Land Company to the Public with the “PLAT OF ORIGINAL MARCELINE.” Taken from the Linn County Abstract Co. Abstracters of Land Titles, Linneus & Brookfield, MO dated November 30, 1887. LINN COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.ABSTRACTERS OF LAND TITLESLINNEUS & BROOKFIELD, MO, …

by Hank Miller How Marceline began – President James Monroe granted 160 acres of territorial land in Northern Missouri (later to become Linn County) to Henry Burkett on February 17, 1819. The land exchanged ownership a multitude of times and faced legal battles until the Tuckerman family sold the property …