Rock Port, MO

ROCKPORT  The county seat of Atchison county.  (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)

ROCKPORT, the county-seat, is a brisk town of 800 population; Linden, 200; and Sonoro, 300 population. The seat of justice was moved from Linden to Rockport, in 1856. There is one newspaper in the county, "Rockport Weekly Herald." The county contains a number of churches, eighteen school-houses, a high school, Odd Fellow's Lodge, etc., and a good representation of business houses.  (Parker's Missouri as it is in 1867..., 1867)