Dutchtown, MO

Dutchtown is a census-designated place and former village in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States, located at the intersection of Routes 25 and 74. The 2020 census counted 163 residents. Dutchtown was part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Dutchtown had a long history of habitation. Dutchtown's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Dutchtown's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Martin Rodner, a Hessian soldier who came to America in 1776 to fight for the British during America's Revolutionary War, moved his family to the Dutchtown area in 1801, where he owned a water mill on Hubble Creek.