Photo of southernmost point on the Missouri River - Dr. E.B. Trail (Steamboat) Collection.
The marker in the picture designates the most southern point touched by the Missouri River. The location is at South Poit, Mo. A small village (appropriately named) about two miles below Washington, Mo. The Missouri in its long journey of approximately 2,945 miles from it extreme source in the mountains to its confluence with the Mississippi here touches it most sourthern point and moves northward to the MIssissippi above St. Louis. Dubois Creek enters the Missouri at South Point and no doubt the early French trappers named this stream. The earliest American white settler of recor4d to settle at South Point was William Hughes who arrived sometime during 1794 and formed a settlement. John Sullins was at South point in 1799 but moved up the river to Beouf Creek before 1800. In steamboating days South Point was quite a prominent vilage; but most of its glory seem to have departed with the boats and today it is just another river vilage, that time does not seem to change. Dr. E. B. Trail
