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==History== Harrisburg was named for John W. Harris,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA212 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=212}}</ref> who inherited the Model Farm on what was Thrall's Prairie, the first permanent settlement in the county.<ref name="History">{{cite book| url = https://archive.org/details/historyofbooneco01stlo | title = History of Boone County, Missouri | last = Switzler | first = William F. | author-link = William Franklin Switzler | date = 1882 | publisher = Western Historical Company | pages = 1073, 1074}}</ref> The town was laid out on the survey line of the prospective Louisiana and Missouri River Railroad which was later leased to [[Alton Railroad|Chicago and Alton Railroad]]. The line was graded and prepared, but was abandoned for a line farther north. The proposed line can be seen on the 1969 [[USGS]] topographic map of Harrisburg.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/Browse/MO/MO_Harrisburg_322898_1969_24000.jpg|title=Harrisburg Quadrangle, Missouri, 7.5 minute series|author=Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey|date=1971|accessdate=July 1, 2015}}</ref> According to [[William Franklin Switzler|Colonel W. F. Switzler]], in 1882, there were a post office, three stores, a confectionary shop, a church, a mill, a blacksmith shop, and a public school building with the Masonic lodge above. That [[Harrisburg School]] building, constructed by the Freemasons, served as Harrisburg’s school and community center from 1878 to 1963. In 2013 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places, but was shortly afterward demolished due to dilapidation. The small Prewitt Family Cemetery is located behind Harrisburg Elementary School. The much larger Harrisburg Cemetery is located at the East end of town. The earliest burial was in 1863, and burials continue today, with an estimated 750 interments as of 2024.The post office was located in the saddle shop.<ref name="History" /> Reverend Green Carey preached at the Bethlehem Baptist church a few miles south of Harrisburg for fifty years and claimed to have joined more than five hundred couples in marriage.<ref name="History" /> The first church building in town belonged to the Harrisburg Christian congregation. It was built in 1872 of local stone and donated wood. In 1880, the official record counted sixty seven members. In 1980, the hundred-year-old building was demolished and a new building took its place.<ref name="HCC">{{cite web|url=http://harrisburgchristian.org/AboutUs/History.html|title=Our History|publisher=Harrisburg Christian Church|date=2007|accessdate=July 1, 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702120334/http://harrisburgchristian.org/AboutUs/History.html|archivedate=July 2, 2015}}</ref> The Baptist church is a part of the [[Southern Baptist Convention]]. The old church building, built in 1887, is still in use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sbc.net/church/0545-65256/harrisburg-baptist-church|title=Harrisburg Baptist Church|date=2015|accessdate=July 1, 2015}}</ref> In 1961, the two congregations were regularly trading Sundays.<ref name="HCC" />
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