Shawneetown, MO

Shawneetown is an unincorporated community in Shawnee Township in northern Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 132 residents. Shawneetown is located twenty miles north of Cape Girardeau and is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Shawneetown was site of one of the six Shawnee and Delaware villages along Apple Creek in both Perry and Cape Girardeau counties and Indian Creek. The former district operates Jackson High School. That mix gives Shawneetown a clear local shape within Missouri, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The village was inhabited by Shawnee immigrants from Ohio and Indiana and Delaware immigrants originally from Delaware and New Jersey, but residing with the Shawnee in Ohio and Indiana. Shawneetown is home to Trinity Lutheran church.