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. HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 289 Belmont surveyed a year before Charleston was, in Belmont, which is the terminus of the Bel- 1836. It was established by James Ramsay mout branch of the Iron Mountain Railroad, and William Lester, and is situated on the is a little town in Mississippi county ; it was Mississippi river about six miles below Bird 's laid out in 1853. The oldest town in Missis- Point. It is famous as the scene of a fiercely sippi county, however, is Norfolk, which was fought battle during the Civil war. Vol. I— 1 9 /