GEORGETOWN, a small post-village, capital of Pettis county, Missouri, on the W. fork of La Mine river, 37 miles W. S. W. from Booneville. (Baldwin & Thomas, A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States ... 1854)
GEORGETOWN The county seat of Pettis county, is situated on the projected line of the Pacific railroad, 185 miles from St. Louis, and 60 miles from Jefferson City. It was first settled in the year 1819. It contains four churches, viz., Presbyterian, Universalist, Methodist, and Christian, one female seminary in a flourishing condition, and one Masonic lodge, viz., Relief Lodge, No. 105, and a newspaper office. Population 1,000. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)
GEORGETOWN was selected as a site for the county-seat [Pettis County, Missouri] in the spring of 1836, and a compactly-built town of several hundred inhabitants has sprung up. There were settlements in the vicinity of the town in 1821. The town is pleasantly situated on the eastern border of a prairie, which is about ten miles wide. There is an abundance of timber contiguous to the town, and some of the best coal banks in the county are near the corporate limits. There are in Georgetown Presbyterian, Methodist, Christian, and Universalist churches, a female seminary, Masonic Lodge, weekly newspaper, steam flouring and grist mill, bookstore, 2 hotels, and all kinds of mechanics, stores, and professional men. Population in 1859, 700. (Parker's Missouri as it is in 1867..., 1867)