Rocheport, MO

ROCHEPORT   A post town of Boone county, Missouri township, situated on the Missouri river, at the mouth of Mountain creek, 14 miles from Columbia, the county seat, 212 by river from St. Louis, and 40 from Jefferson City. It contains three churches, viz., Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian. There are a number of Baptists in the town, but as yet they have no church. There is a Masonic Lodge and Chapter, viz., Rocheport Lodge, No. 67, and Columbia Chapter, No.17. Land is worth about $20 per acre, improved. The chief productions are corn, wheat, tobacco and hemp—timber, ash, oak, hickory and sugar maple. Coal is also found in abundance. Population 800.  (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)