On October 27th, 1838, Governor Lilburn Boggs issued an executive order calling for the extermination or expulsion of Mormons from Missouri. There were many settled near present-day Gallatin at the time. They subsequently fled to Utah.
Had that order not been signed, Worth County, and the entire region, would have had a lot more people, businesses, and farms today instead of the desert that it is now.
On June 25th, 1976, Governor Kit Bond rescinded the order, saying that it contravened the rights to life, liberty, property, and religious freedom as guaranteed by the US Constitution as well as the Missouri Constitution. He noted that as the nation approached its bicentennial year, it was important to reflect on one of the basic tenets of religious liberty.
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