Cape Girardeau, MO

CAPE GIRARDEAU, p.v. Cape Girardeau co., Mo., 207 ms. S.E. of Jefferson City; from W. 850 ms.  Watered by Mississippi river.  (Fanning's, 1853)

CAPE GIRARDEAU, a post-village of Cape Girardeau county, Missouri, on the Mississippi river, 45 miles above the mouth of the Ohio, and 207 miles E. S. E. from Jefferson City. It has a good landing, and contains several hundred inhabitants.  (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)