St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri Genealogy

This is a Genealogy page for Buchanan County Seat in the State of Missouri.

Missouri Buchanan County  St. Joseph

St Joseph is where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended. It is also home of the Kansas City Chief Summer Training Camp.

Resources
The State of Missouri was organized in 1821 and Joseph Robidoux established the Blacksnake Hills trading post with the Indians in 1826. Robidoux's trading post soon became a fur-trading empire stretching to the southern Rocky Mountains. The Platte Purchase joined his land to the state of Missouri in 1837. Ideally situated, Robidoux's trading post became the City of St. Joseph in 1843 and remained relatively small until the discovery of gold in California in 1848 which greatly altered and accelerated westward migration. Read more at St. Joseph History

Cemeteries

 * Mount Mora Cemetery

Town Clerk

 * City Clerk