Kirksville, MO | A 4K City Walking Tour

Kirksville is the county seat and most populous city in Adair County, Missouri. Kirksville is home to two colleges: Truman State University and A.T. Still University. Kirksville was laid out in 1841 and was first incorporated in 1857. According to tradition Jesse Kirk, Kirksville's first postmaster, shared a dinner of turkey and whiskey with surveyors working in the area on the condition that they would name the town after him. Not only the first postmaster, Kirk was also the first to own a hotel and a tavern in Kirksville. he Battle of Kirksville was fought August 6–9, 1862, during the American Civil War. Union troops led by John McNeil forced Confederate volunteers under Joseph Porter to vacate the city.

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