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DeSoto Public Library - this is a
good place to do genealogy research. They have a nice genealogy section & the
librarians are polite & helpful. Photographed: 26Jan2002 |
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DeSoto is located on Joachim
Creek, and on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway. It was laid out
in September, 1857, by Thomas C. Fletcher (later governor) and Louis James Rankin.
The post office was established soon after the town was laid out, and the
first postmaster was C.B. Fletcher, father of Gov. Fletcher. At the outbreak of the Civil
War [1861] the town contained not over 200 inhabitants. |
