This change caused more severe flooding, as well as lateral channel changes, such as the one that cut off the village of Kaskaskia from the Illinois mainland. Louis to the confluence with the Ohio River. Crews cut so many trees that banks destabilized and collapsed in the current, making the river wider and more shallow from St. Philippe and Harrisonville were submerged by the Mississippi River, in flooding caused by deforestation of river banks during the steamboat years. Waterloo was designated as the mantle of county seat in 1825. Harrison invested in several tracts of land in the American Bottoms above Harrisonville, mostly in the present precinct of Moredock, ownership of which he retained until his death. Its first county seat was Harrisonville, named for William Henry Harrison, former governor of the Northwest Territory and future President.
It was named in honor of James Monroe, who had just served as United States Secretary of War and who was elected President later that same year. Clair counties, as the 8th county created from the then Illinois Territory.īeginning on the Mississippi River where the base line, which is about three-fourths of a mile below Judge Briggs's present residence, strikes the said river thence with the base line until it strikes the first township line therefrom thence southeast to the southeast corner of township two south, range nine west thence south to the southeast corner of township four north, range nine west thence southwestwardly to the Mississippi, so as to include Alexander McNabb's farm, and thence up the Mississippi to the beginning shall constitute a separate county, to be called MONROE. Monroe County was formed in 1816 out of Randolph and St. They were integral to that community's survival, as its climate did not allow cultivation of such staple grains. This early agricultural community quickly produced a surplus, and grains were sold to the lower Louisiana colony for years. Philippe, founded in 1723 by Philippe François Renault, a French courtier, on his concession about three miles north of Fort de Chartres along the Mississippi River. The first European settlement in this area was St. French Jesuit priests in the Illinois Country encountered the Kaskaskia and Cahokia, bands of the Illiniwek confederacy. Indigenous peoples lived along the Mississippi River and related waterways for thousands of years before European contact.
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