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Pilot Knob, Missouri (view source)
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'''Pilot Knob''' is a city in northeastern [[Iron County, Missouri|Iron County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 746 at the 2010 census. The city is famous as the site of a [[Civil War]] battle in 1864.
'''Pilot Knob''' is a city in northeastern [[Iron County, Missouri|Iron County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 746 at the 2010 census. The city is famous as the site of a [[Civil War]] battle in 1864.
==History==
Pilot Knob lies at the base of a small mountain of the same name, rising nearly 600 feet above the surrounding Arcadia Valley. Supposedly, it was identified as far back as the Spanish expedition of [[Hernando de Soto]] in 1541, and was a later landmark for miners and settlers entering the region in the early 19th century, resulting in its unique name.<ref>http://www.floridahistory.com/missouri.html</ref> A village of Delaware Indians existed at the foot of the mountain at this time, and the forced [[Cherokee]] migration along the [[Trail of Tears]] would pass nearby in the late 1830s.<ref>http://sites.rootsweb.com/~moicgs/countyhistory.html</ref>
By the 1830s, it was known that deposits of [[iron|iron ore]] were located in and around Pilot Knob, and the first mine was opened in 1835, followed in subsequent years by the establishment of furnaces and forges. Largely to transport the refined ore to distant markets, the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad was completed in the late 1850s, about the same time as the organization of Iron County in 1857.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/iron-county</ref> It was also at this time that the community of Pilot Knob, growing from the arrival of miners and ironworkers, came into existence, being formally laid out in 1858.
==References==
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[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]
[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]