Fried Inundation - (H2O required) Traditional Cache
FRIED OKRA: This one was fun while it lasted. It keeps getting muggled so it has to go. Bye. Bye.
Fried Inundation - (H2O required)
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Please log your city of residence. Placed in the guidelines of the
Jefferson City Parks Department.
Cedar City, Mo.
Supposedly named for the trees on a nearby bluff when platted in
1870 along the Chicago & Alton Railroad, Cedar City
reportedly replaced the river town Hibernia as a shipping point.
Although annexed by Jefferson City in 1989, Cedar City kept its
post office name (as a substation of Jefferson City), contrary to
post office regulations, because of local sentiment.
The flood of 1993 swept away most of the community's
structures. Today, locals refer to the area as North Jefferson
City. Post offices: Hibernia 1925-1871; Cedar City 1870-1994;
Jefferson City 1994 - present. There is a street in Holts
Summit, Mo. called Hibernia Lane. It runs next to a ballfield and
is very short.
HISTORY
The site of Hibernia was a choice river landing site among French
trappers and traders and also among the early Kentuckians of
territorial and early statehood times, because of its’ natural
harbor at the confluence of the river and two major streams.
Hibernia established itself as a center or river commerce and early
migration landing site for both keelboat and steamboat traffic on
the river and remained strong in its’ position among river landings
throughout the early steamboat period.
When Jefferson City was named, by Governor McNair, as the site for
the capital for the State of Missouri, a number of Irish settlers
came to work on the new capitol building. The site that they
selected to settle was on the North bank of the Missouri River at
the confluence with Cedar Creek and Turkey Creek. The name Hibernia
was the name given to the river landing site and settlement by the
first postmaster, Patrick McMasters Dillon. Hibernia was taken from
the ancient Latin name of Ireland, and that name was well applied
to honor the small settlement of Irish immigrants who had made
their home there.
In 1834, John Yount and William B. Scott, purchased patents on the
lands in section sixteen on which the village of Hibernia and its’
river landing were situated. The land patent of William B. Scott
bore the notation, “assignee, Cedar City Land Company”, foretelling
the future of Hibernia. With the continued growth of Jefferson City
and establishment of landings on the North bank of the river
directly across from Jefferson City, and three miles to the East of
Jefferson City, Hibernia’s position on the river was diminished. It
remained a favored steamboat landing nonetheless. With the gradual
loss of steamboat traffic and decline of steam boating itself in
the 1870’s, the village of Hibernia faded in prominence and
gradually became known as Cedar City, with the name of the post
office being changed to Cedar City in 1871. With this change the
fate of Hibernia was sealed and was to gradually fade from
memory.
The severe flooding along the Missouri River in the 1880’s, and
particularly 1888, significantly changed the course of the river
leaving Cedar City and Hibernia Landing approximately one-half mile
inland from the river. It also created a new confluence for Cedar
Creek approximately four miles to the West. The days of Hibernia as
a village and as a river landing were gone as a result of this
flooding, with the only remembrance being the naming of the Chicago
& Alton Railroad depot at Holt’s Summit as Hibernia
Station.
Steamboats, such as the J.W. Spencer and J.L. Ferguson, made their
respective contributions as local ferry boats operating in the
decade prior to the construction of the first bridge crossing the
Missouri River at Jefferson City. To the immediate southrast of
Hibernia is that bridge, built privately by the Jefferson City
Bridge Company, which crossed the river at Bolivar Street in
Jefferson City to a site on the North shore in Callaway County. It
was the opening of the newly constructed bridge that finally
brought the steamboat era to a close in the Jefferson City area.
The closing of steamboat traffic on the Spencer was celebrated
along with the opening of the new bridge in 1895 and shortly
thereafter the Spencer was sold and transferred to St. Charles,
Missouri. In the immediate area is the developing future of
Jefferson City with new bridge, water tower, railroad service,
churches and state capitol building.
The contribution that these small river landings made to the
growth and settlement of Missouri and points further west is
immeasurable. Steamboat traffic made the Missouri River the
superhighway to the West and brought a flood of immigrants on a
means of transportation less fraught with the rigors of overland
and keelboat travel, and at a cost that was much more affordable as
time progressed. It was the steamboats that brought most of our
German immigrants to the hills of Central Missouri and took our
produce and products to markets elsewhere. Steamboating, as with
other means of transportation and travel, gradually faded into the
past leaving new venues of railroads, roads and bridges, and also
air travel for our future.
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