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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: St. Louis County, Missouri, Jefferson County, Missouri, Lincoln County, Missouri, Lewis County, Missouri, Scott County, Missouri, Pike County, Missouri, New Madrid County, Missouri, St. Charles County, Missouri, Clark County, Missouri, Perry County, Missouri, Marion County, Missouri, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri, Mississippi County, Missouri, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, Pemiscot County, Missouri, Ralls County, Missouri. Excerpt: Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Cape Girardeau County is a county located in Southeast Missouri in the United States . As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the county's population was 68,693; a 2008 estimate, however, showed the population to be 73,243. While the largest city in the county is Cape Girardeau , the county seat is actually Jackson , which was the first city named in honor of President Andrew Jackson . The county was officially organized on October 1, 1812. Cape Girardeau County is the central hub of the Cape Girardeau Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area . History Cape Girardeau County was organized on October 1, 1812, as one of five original counties and is named after Ensign Sieur Jean Baptiste de Girardot (also spelled Girardeau or Girardat), a French officer originally stationed at Kaskaskia, Illinois from 1704-1720 who later developed a trading post on the site on the present-day city of Cape Girardeau around 1733. The "cape" in the county name was a rock promontory overlooking the Mississippi River and Claire's house the original cape rock was destroyed by railroad construction. The county's name derives from a district located in the area when the Spanish controlled the region. The first Cape Girardeau County Courthouse was constructed in 1818 by John Davis. This courthouse burned in 1870. The present courthouse in Jackson ...