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 276 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HlLLSBORO The first settler on the site of Hillsboro was a man named Hanson, who moved there in 1832 and laid out the town. The place was first called Monticello, bvit on the removal of the seat of justice from Herculaneum to this place the name was changed to Hillsboro. It is a typical country town, being without rail- road facilities, the nearest shipping points be- of the ore from Pilot Knob was brought here for smelting; this was in 1873, and the plant was operated imtil 1883. At the present time the town is supported by the agricultural country about it. There are Presbyterian and Catholic churches and a public school. The town is on the St. Louis, Iron ^Mountain & Southern Railway and also on the St. Louis & San Francisco. Just north of the town is Montesano Springs, a summer resort. Main Street, Hillsboro ing Desoto and Victoria on the Iron Moiuitain Railway. It has a church, a public school, a hotel, two weekly newspapers — the Jefferson Democrat and the Jefferson County Record — a bank with a capital stock of $10,000, and its population is 261. KiMHSWICK Kimmswick is situated on the Mississippi river, twenty-one miles south of St. Louis. It was laid out as a town by Theodore Kimm in 1859. At one time the town bid fair to be- come one of considerable importance ; this was during the operation of iron mines at Pilot Kiiob and Iron Mountain. A large smelting plant was erected in Kimmswick and much The Bank of Kimmswick has a capital stock of $10,000. The population of Kimmswick is 235. Hematite A town in Jeffer.son county on the St. Louis, Iron ilountain & Southern Railway, thirty- five miles southwest of St. Louis, was laid out in 1861 by Stephen Osborn of St. Louis. It contains Christian, Congregational and Meth- odist churches, a public school, a flour mill and some other business establishments. It i.« the shipping point for a large amoimt of building stone quarried in the vicinity of the town. Its pop^llation is about 200.