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Trenton (City and county-seat of Grundy)

a city and county-seat of Grundy co., Mo.; on the Crooked Fork of Grand river, and on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad; 102 miles N.

E. of Leavenworth, Kan. It contains Avalon College (United Brethren), a court house, churches, National and other banks, and several newspapers. It has flour and woolen mills and an assessed property valuation exceeding $1,200,000.

Pop. (1910) 5,656; (1920) 6,951. assessed property valuation in 1919 was $76,177,195 in real estate and $16,030,800 in personal property. The net public debt was $ 6,110,437. The annual cost of maintaining the city government was $1,665,169. There were enrolled in the public schools 15,336 pupils and the cost of maintaining the schools was $734,606.

It is the seat of the State Normal and Model School, School of Industrial Arts, and several private schools. It contains three hospitals, State home for girls, a reformatory, State hospital for the insane, and a State prison. The notable public buildings include the State Capitol, Masonic Temple, and the State Armory. The city has two parks. The spot where Washington planted his cannon during the Battle of Trenton is marked by a statue. tled as early as 1679 by Mahlon Stacy History. The site of Trenton was setand other Quakers. Judge Trent purchased a large plantation here about 1715, and the place became known as Trent Town, subsequently shortened to Trenton. It became the State capital in 1790, but prior to that year the Legislature often met here. The town was incorporated in 1792. After the Revolutionary War the Continental Congress once met here and discussed the feasibility of making Trenton the National capital, but State jealousies defeated the movement. On Dec. 25, 1776, the town was the scene of night attack by Washington on the British troops, whom he surprised by crossing the Delaware, when the floating ice was supposed to have rendered it impassable. A monument erected by the National and State governments commemorates this event.