Crawford County, MO
History
Crawford County was created on January 23, 1829 from Gasconade County. It is named for William H. Crawford (1772-1834), a U.S. Senator from Georgia and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.It is not positively known who the first white man to make his home in the territory now comprising Crawford County was, but it is supposed William Harrison was the first, certainly one of the first. He located in the county about 1817. In March, 1821, James Sanders, from Kentucky, settled on Huzza Creek. At that time there were living in the same neighborhood Peter Brickey, William Fulbright and a number of others, most all natives of Kentucky. These settlers had reached the territory previous to Sanders a few years. Harrison, in company with one Reeves, in 1818, opened up an iron furnace on the Thickety, in the northwest part of the county. Harrison also made the first land entry on September 20, 1823.
The first iron furnace in Crawford County was established in 1818. It was located in the northeast part of the county on Thickety. Reeves & Harrison were the proprietors.
Source A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets of Crawford County, Missouri