OZARK The county seat of Christian county, Finley township, on Finley creek, 15 miles from Springfield, the county seat of Greene county. Christian is a new county lately organized, and formerly a portion of Greene county, distant 250 miles from St. Louis, and 143 from Jefferson city. It contains an institute, one Christian and one Methodist church, two general stores, one flouring and one grist mill, two druggists, three distillers, two hotels and four saw mills. Chief products, wheat, corn, oats, rye, tobacco and pork. Timber, walnut, hickory and oak. Minerals, lead and iron. Average price of cultivated lands, $10 per acre; uncultivated, $3,50 per acre. Population of county 6000. County Judges, C.L. Dickinson, J.A. Marloy, Wm. Chesnut. County Sheriff, J.K. Gibson. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)