On this date, the Missouri government permanently relocated from St. Charles to its Jefferson City headquarters, according to a history from the Missouri Secretary of State. The law identifying Jefferson City as the state seat for government had been signed into law back in 1821.
Photo credit: High Street, Jefferson City, Missouri. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/97503978/.
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