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Perry County, Missouri

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10historic places

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1821formed

18,956pop. 2020

23cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 10 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Perryville, Altenburg, Frohna.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Missouri is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Perry titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 10 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

10 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bergt, Christian A., Farm	Frohna	Building	1980
Concordia Log Cabin College	Altenburg	Building	1978
Doerr-Brown House	Perryville	Building	1980
Eggers and Company General Store	Farrar	Building	2007
Faherty House	Perryville	Building	2025
Mack's Chapel Cemetery	Altenburg	Site	2018
Perry County Courthouse	Perryville	Building	2016
Shelby-Nicholson-Schindler House	Perryville	Building	1974
St. Mary's of the Barrens Historic District	Perryville	District	1995
Tower Rock	Wittenburg	Site	1970

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Perry was formed in 1821 (1821-01-01) from Ste.

PERRY created from STE. GENEVIEVE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Perry County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,349	5,760	9,128	11,895	15,134	14,434	15,358	14,890	14,642	16,784	18,132	18,956

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

23 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 23 of 23 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Baptist Shed Cemetery	37.7087	-89.7575
Brazeau Presbyterian Church Cemetery	37.66114	-89.65007
Brown Cemetery	37.84984	-89.96086
Campground Cemetery	37.6058	-89.90578
Concordia Lutheran Cemetery	37.64441	-89.61938
Friedenberg Cemetery	37.70934	-89.82908
Grace Lutheran Cemetery	37.62026	-89.71754
Holy Cross Lutheran Cemetery	37.72244	-89.76618
Home Cemetery	37.73311	-89.86761
Horn Cemetery	37.72874	-89.77815
Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery	37.72833	-89.84625
Luthers Chapel Cemetery	37.63309	-89.80769
Mount Hope Cemetery	37.72597	-89.89386
Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Cemetery	37.83585	-89.77674
Preston Cemetery	37.80253	-89.8332
Saint Boniface Cemetery	37.72338	-89.87149
Saint Joseph Cemetery	37.60979	-89.75377
Saint Maurus Catholic Cemetery	37.60314	-89.84387
Saint Pauls Lutheran Cemetery	37.66161	-89.53237
Saint Rose of Lima Cemetery	37.6845	-89.99088
Salem Lutheran Church Cemetery	37.70213	-89.69134
Vicentian Community Cemetery	37.72546	-89.88985
Zion Lutheran Cemetery	37.67181	-89.77666

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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