B. A map of 1902 Cole County, Missouri showing the locations of 15 different settlements including all of the following: * Brazito * Cedar City * Decatur * Duck * Elston * Hickoryhill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * Scruggs * Taos * Teal *

C. A map of 1904 Cole County, Missouri showing the locations of 20 different settlements including all of the following: * Bass * Brazito * Centertown * Decatur * Elston * Henley * Hickoryhill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Millbrook * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * Saint Thomas * Scrivner * Scruggs * Taos * Teal * Wardsville * The 1904 map of Cole County can be viewed here: Cole County, Missouri 1904 Map

D. A map of 1913 Cole County, Missouri showing the locations of 23 different settlements including all of the following: * Bass * Brazito * Centertown * Decatur * Elston * Enon * Eugene * Ewing's * Henley * Hickory Hill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * McKinney * Moreau * Osage Bluff * Scrivner * Scruggs * Scott * St. Thomas * Taos * Teal * Wardsville *

E. A map from the 1920's which includes details of where various tourist sites and service stations were located.

F. A 1929 map from the Missouri Department of Transportation. You will be amazed at how many of the major routes were only dirt or gravel!

Section Two of three, ALL on one CD: Cole County, Missouri in 1913
Included here are six pages concerning Cole County, Missouri from the 1913 edition of The Missouri Red Book and contains about every imaginable statistic you could want for this time period. Some of the facts contained are the number of farms and their acreages, number of cows, horses, mules, pigs, sheep, goats, poultry, colonies of bees, how many farms had mortgages and how many were free of debt, the amount of butter produced, the number of bushels of apples, peaches, pears, etc. harvested, the number of quarts of blackberries harvested, the number of schools and teachers, plus hundreds of other detailed statistics. A wealth of information!

Section Three of three, ALL on one CD: The complete 1889 Goodspeed's History of Cole County, Missouri.
This detailed (192 pages in all) book has an incredible amount of historical and genealogical information about Cole County, Missouri from its earliest settlement up to 1889. This is an exact photo replica of all the pages pertaining to Cole County, Missouri including all of the historical and family biographical information.

Here is just some of the information included:

• Pioneer History of Cole County, Missouri

• Establishment of Cole County, Missouri

• Early Settlers of Cole County, Missouri

• Cole County Early Land Entries

• Circuit Court Transactions of Cole County, Missouri

• Cole County Political Record

• Cole County Societies and Organizations

• Military Affairs (Civil War history) Movements of Union and Confederate forces including battles and skirmishes. This section includes a very lengthy list of soldiers (both Union and Confederate) from the Cole County, Missouri area.

• Cole County Schools

• Cole County Churches and related organizations

• History of Cities and Towns of Cole County, Missouri including: Belleville * Centre Town * Chouteau * Elston * Hickory Hill * Jefferson City * Lohman * Marion * Osage Bluff * Osage City * Russellville * St. Thomas * Stringtown *

Included is a 81 page family biographical section with biographies for each of the following Cole County family surnames: To view a sample family biography, click here  Alexander * Anderson * Antweiler * Arnhold * Bandelier * Beckers * Berry * Binder * Bolton * Brenner * Brunk * Buckner * Buente * Clarenbach * Clarke * Cox * Creedon * Crede * Dallmeyer * Davison * Diel * Diercks * Dix * Dulle * Dunlop * Edwards * Elston * Engelbrecht * Enloe * Ernst * Fischer * Freshour * Garnett * George * Glover * Gordon * Garman * Greenup * Grimshaw * Handley * Harding * Hartley * Henley * Hoog * Huegel * Humpert * Kautsch * Knernscheld * Koehler * Kroeger * Lamkin * Linhardt * Lockett * Lohman * Long * Lusk * McCarty * McKinney * McWorkman * Maddux * Mahan * Martin * Mayens * Moore * Murphy * Nieghorn * Noland * Obermayer * Ohnemueller * Opel * Ortmeyer * Ott * Pfunder * Plummer * Popp * Prenger * Raithel * Rakes * Rephlo * Richter * Robertson * Roer * Routszong * Schell * Scheperle * Schirmer * Schmucker * Schleer * Scott * Scruggs * Sinks * Sommer * Spurr * Stampfli * Steffens * Straus * Summerer * Swift * Tagart * Tanner * Thompson * Thorpe * Wagner * Walser * Ward * Wells * Young * Zimmermann * Zuber *

In addition to those listed above, hundreds upon hundreds of other family surnames are made mention of in the text of the book.

Cole County, Missouri is located in the North Central portion of the Missouri Ozarks and is surrounded by the following counties: Moniteau County, Missouri * Boone County, Missouri * Callaway County, Missouri * Miller County, Missouri * Osage County, Missouri (highlighted county names can be clicked on for further description)