Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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13 BEE CREEK. lowed to settle at Todds Creek, for change of horses. Subse~ quently change of horses was made at the house of Wm. Fox, of Longpoint - so called because a long point of timber there ex- tended out into the prairie. BEE CREEK Several crossings of Bee Creek were constructed by the soldiers, between 1828 and 1839. In the latter year a high frame bridge was built at the point where Bee Creek enters the Missouri bottom. It was erected at the joint expense of the county and the Government. This was, for may years after the settlement of that county. The approach to Weston. It was much later that the direct route from Platte City to Weston was opened. 1832. The Mormons come to Jackson County. Liberty Arsenal is erected this year. David Bivens did the carpenters work. and Riley and Dykes the brick-work. The Arsenel and Robert Aull's house were the first brick buildings erected in Clay. About 1832 the main channel of the Missouri changed from the west to the east side of Weston Island. 1833. The Mormons, robbed and threatened by the people of Jackson County, pass over into Clay, and thence move on to Caldwell County. 1835. This spring Thos. Johnson and Sashel Brown, of Clay, corssed the State line into Platte and raised corn. which they sold at Fort Leavenworth. ANNEXATION OF THE PLATTE COUNTRY At this time the western boundary of the State of Missouri was a north-and-south line running through the mouth of the Kansas River. The territory lying west of the State line and east ot.the Missouri. and traversed by the Little Platte. was known as the Platte Country. The Iowas and the Sacs and Foxes set claim to this land. Gen. Andrew Hughes was agent for these tribes, holding his headquarters at Agency, in what is now Buchanan CountV. By the treaty made with these tribes July 15, 1830. the Governnment was granted the privilege of locating other tribes temporarily on this territory. In 1832, it was offered to the Delawares. and refused by them. Because there were no buffalo upon it. In 1823. the Iowas and Sacs and Foxes expressed a de- sire to sell their territorial rights. on account of the encroach- ments of the whites. In 1824. by the treaty of Chicago, a part of the Pottawatomie tribe was located, temporarily, in Platte County. This called forth from Senator Linn, of Missouri, the following letter to H. Ellsworth: