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Cape Girardeau| City in Cape Girardeau County, southeastern Missouri, USA, on bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River, 160 km/100 mi southeast of St Louis; population (2000) 35,300. Southeastern Missouri's commercial hub, it also makes furniture, paper products, cement, and electrical equipment. |
| On the site of an early-18th-century trading post established by Jean Baptiste Girardot, it was founded in 1793 and settled by Spanish immigrants. Its proximity to the Mississippi-Ohio river confluence made it a flourishing trade and shipping centre before the Civil War. Occupied by Union forces (remains of fortifications still exist), it declined after the conflict but was revived with the railroad's arrival in 1881. |
| Southeast Missouri State University (1873) is here. Trail of Tears State Park is to the north. |
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