Nissouri

Nissouri is a country of streams and wooded land inland from the Great Lakes. Its name has been associated with an Indigenous expression for running water, a fitting description of the many watercourses crossing the area. The township was surveyed around 1820, and its early settlers held a town meeting by 1822. Roads and mills followed as more families arrived during the 1820s, including immigrants from Britain and families who had come from Pennsylvania after the American Revolution.