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La Grange, Missouri
La Grange is a city in Lewis County, Missouri, Lewis County, Missouri, United States. The population was 825 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Since the 1960 census, the population has been dwindling. It is part of the Quincy, Illinois, Quincy, Illinois, IL–MO Quincy micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. History La Grange was founded in 1830. A post office called La Grange has been in operation since 1833. In 1885, the Supreme Court ruled against the city in ''Cole v. La Grange''. The court found that the city could only use eminent domain powers for public purposes and not to specifically benefit the La Grange Iron and Steel Company. In 1858 the Southern Baptists opened the LaGrange Male and Female Seminary. It later became LaGrange College, with a two-year junior college program. In 1928 it moved to Hannibal as Hannibal–LaGrange College (now Hannibal–LaGrange University). In 2001, the Mark Twain Casino opened in a stationary riverboat. Th ...
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City
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agreed definition of the lower boundary for their size. In a narrower sense, a city can be defined as a permanent and Urban density, densely populated place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, Public utilities, utilities, land use, Manufacturing, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations, government organizations, and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving the efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, bu ...
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Eminent Domain
Eminent domain, also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation, is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. It does not include the power to take and transfer ownership of private property from one property owner to another private property owner without a valid public purpose. This power can be legislatively delegated by the state to municipalities, government subdivisions, or even to private persons or corporations, when they are authorized to exercise the functions of public character. The most common uses of property taken by eminent domain have been for roads, government buildings and public utility, public utilities. Many railroads were given the right of eminent domain to obtain land or easements in order to build and connect rail networks. In the mid-20th century, a new application of eminent domain was pioneered, in which the government could take the property and transfer it to ...
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Native Americans or Native American usually refers to Native Americans in the United States Native Americans (also called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans) are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the Contiguous United States, lower 48 states and A .... Related terms and peoples include: Ethnic groups * Indigenous peoples of the Americas, the pre-Columbian peoples of North, South, and Central America and their descendants * Indigenous peoples in Canada ** First Nations in Canada, Canadian Indigenous peoples who are neither Inuit nor Métis ** Inuit, Indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and Alaska. ** Métis in Canada, specific cultural communities who trace their descent to early communities consisting of both First Nations people and European settlers * Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica * Indi ...
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African American (U
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an Race and ethnicity in the United States, American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black people, Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Slavery in the United States, Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to Atlantic slave trade, European slave traders and Middle Passage, transported across the Atlantic to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, the Western He ...
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White (U
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no chroma). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully (or almost fully) reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on television and computer screens is created by a mixture of red, blue, and green light. The color white can be given with white pigments, especially titanium dioxide. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, priestesses wore white as a symbol of purity, and Romans wore white togas as symbols of citizenship. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance a white unicorn symbolized chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. It was the royal color of the kings of France as well as the flag of monarchist France from 1815 to 1830, and of the monarchist movement that opposed the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922). Greek temples and Roman temples were faced with white marble, and beginning in the 18th c ...
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Population Density
Population density (in agriculture: Standing stock (other), standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area. It is mostly applied to humans, but sometimes to other living organisms too. It is a key geographical term.Matt RosenberPopulation Density Geography.about.com. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on December 10, 2011. Biological population densities Population density is population divided by total land area, sometimes including seas and oceans, as appropriate. Low densities may cause an extinction vortex and further reduce fertility. This is called the Allee effect after the scientist who identified it. Examples of the causes of reduced fertility in low population densities are: * Increased problems with locating sexual mates * Increased inbreeding Human densities Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometre" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, ar ...
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Census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of statistics. This term is used mostly in connection with Population and housing censuses by country, national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include Census of agriculture, censuses of agriculture, traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations (UN) defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ten years. UN recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications, and other useful information to coordinate international practices. The United Nations, UN's Food ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Historic districts in the United States, districts, and objects deemed worthy of Historic preservation, preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing property, contributing resources within historic district (United States), historic districts. For the most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the United States Department of the Interior. Its goals are to ...
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Fred Rhoda House
Fred Rhoda House, also known as Cottrell House and Goldie Dickerson House, is a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1854, and is a two-story, central-bay brick I-house with some Greek Revival styling. It has a one-story brick rear ell with frame addition. (includes 5 photographs from 1998) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1999. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Greek Revival houses in Missouri Houses completed in 1854 Buildings and structures in Lewis County, Missouri National Register of Historic Places in Lewis County, Missouri {{LewisCountyMO-NRHP-stub ...
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John McKoon House
John McKoon House, also known as Johnson House, was a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1857, and was a two-story, five-bay, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It had a -story brick rear ell enlarged about 1876. It featured an original two story portico with square wood columns and a simple wide cornice with delicately scaled dentil molding. (includes 15 photographs from 1998) It has been demolished. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1999. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Greek Revival houses in Missouri Houses completed in 1857 Buildings and structures in Lewis County, Missouri Natio ...
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Joseph Hipkins House
Joseph Hipkins House, also known as Jas. T. Howland House, is a historic home located at La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. It was built about 1856, and is a two-story, three-bay, side hall plan, brick I-house with Greek Revival style design elements. It has a one-story brick rear ell. The house has a low hipped roof with a wide overhang and a deep wooden cornice and features a full-width front porch and wide formal entranceways. (includes 12 photographs from 2007) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 2008. References Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Greek Revival houses in Missouri Houses completed in 1856 Buildings and structures in Lewis County, Missouri Natio ...
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William Gray House
The William Gray House (also known as the G. H. Simpson House) is a historic house located at 407 Washington Street in La Grange, Missouri, La Grange, Lewis County, Missouri. Description and history It was built in about 1860, and is a two-story, three bay wide, side hall plan, brick I-house with Greek Revival architecture, Greek Revival style design elements. It has a long one-story brick rear ell and a one-story front porch that surrounds the main entrance. (includes 12 photographs from 1998) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1999. References

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