Vernon County

   The origin of the first settlement of Vernon County, and of the present Bates county, was the establishment, in the year 1821, of the Harmony Mission, on the Marais des Cygnes, six miles above its mouth, in what is now Bates county. This mission, or station, as it was sometimes called, was planted under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, an organization composed of Presbyterians and Congregationalists.

  In 1829 Jesse Summers, Moses Summers, and Allen Summers, three brothers, made the first permanent settlements of Vernon County.

  The current population is estimated to be 20,383.

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