Santa Fe is an

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in southeastern Monroe County,

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, United States. It is located approximately twenty-five miles north of

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, near the southern edge of

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. Santa Fe was founded in 1836 and named for Santa Fe, New Mexico. The post office at Santa Fe has been in operation since 1854. The Mark Twain State Park Picnic Shelter at Buzzard's Roost was listed on the

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in 1985. The Clemens family (one of whom was Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. " Mark Twain") owned several tracts of land in the area.

Civil War

A battle was fought on July 24, 1862, in Santa Fe during the

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between the

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, under command of Colonel Henry Clay Caldwell, and the

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led by Colonel Joseph C. Porter. In ''A History of Northeast Missouri, Volume 1'' the writer indicates this battle might have taken place on July 22, as by the 23rd Porter had already supposedly entered

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. (Google books)

References

Former cities in Missouri Unincorporated communities in Monroe County, Missouri Populated places established in 1837 Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{MonroeCountyMO-geo-stub