Editing Palmyra, Missouri (section)

== History ==
Palmyra was [[plat]]ted in 1819 and named after the ancient city of [[Palmyra]] in [[Syria]].<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_marion.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070655/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_marion.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Marion County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= November 3, 2016}}</ref> The settlement was designated county seat in 1827.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n90 193]}}</ref> A post office called Palmyra has been in operation since 1830.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Marion | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=3 November 2016}}</ref>

In 1862, the city was the scene of the [[Palmyra Massacre]], in which ten [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] prisoners were killed in retaliation for the disappearance of a local [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] man.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Flags of Civil War Missouri| date=6 May 2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EPSvPCX8MQQC&pg=PA27|publisher=Pelican Publishing|isbn=978-1-4556-0433-3|pages=27–28}}</ref>

The [[Culbertson-Head Farmstead]], [[Dryden-Louthan House]], [[Gardner House (Palmyra, Missouri)|Gardner House]], [[Marion County Jail and Jailor's House]], [[Peter J. Sowers House]], [[Speigle House]], [[Walker-Woodward-Schaffer House]], and [[Ephraim J. Wilson Farm Complex]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
[[File:Mural in Palmyra, MO.jpg|right|thumb|200px|{{center|WPA mural, ''Memories of Marion County'' by James Penny, in Palmyra post office}}]]