Editing Rocheport, Missouri (section)

==History==
Rocheport was a trading post for both settlers and [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. After the purchase of the [[Louisiana Territory]] in 1803, President [[Thomas Jefferson]] commissioned [[Meriwether Lewis]] and [[William Clark (explorer)|William Clark]] to lead an expedition to explore the western territories. On June 7, 1804, their journey led them to the convergence of the [[Missouri River]] and [[Moniteau Creek (north central Missouri)|Moniteau Creek]] near the future settlement of Rocheport. Clark noted the features of the land, flora, fauna and native pictographs on the bluffs in his journal. The [[Sauk people|Sauk]] leader [[Quashquame]] led a village of Sauk, [[Meskwaki]], and [[Ioway]] near Rocheport, along Moniteau Creek in the first decade of the 19th century;<ref>Johnson, W. F. (1919) ''History of Cooper County, Missouri.'' Historical Publishing Co. Topeka.</ref> this village was noted by [[Zebulon Pike]] in 1806.<ref>July 17, 1806 journal entry, ''The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike.'' ed. Elliot Coues, Vol. 2, (1895) Harper, New York</ref> Rocheport became a permanent settlement in the early nineteenth century.  Rocheport is a French name meaning "rocky port".<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/n24 213]}}</ref>

The [[Moses U. Payne House]] is a historic structured located just outside Rocheport.