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            Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States....  (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 182.
      
      
  
            LAFAYETTE COUNTY, situated in the westerly part of Missouri, with Missouri river on the north. Area, 450 square miles. Seat of justice, Lexington. Pop. in 1840, 6,815; in 1850, 13,690.
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Depicted ContentLafayette County, MO