Shannon County, Missouri (Fanning's, 1853)
Gazetteer/Almanac
      
            SHANNON COUNTY, situated in the south part of Missouri. Area, about 1,300 square miles. Seat of justice, Eminence. Pop. in 1850, 1,199.
      
            Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....  (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 329.