Longtown, MO

Longtown is a village in Union Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 90 residents. Some of the earliest Europeans to put down roots in the area were English and Scotch-Irish Presbyterian settlers from Rowan, Iredell, Cabarrus, and Mecklenburg counties in North Carolina who settled to the south in Brazeau in 1817. Soon after, in 1821, they were followed by English and Scotch-Irish Methodists also hailing from North Carolina, settling in the present area of Longtown. Longtown'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 Longtown's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.