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Defiance is an unincorporated community in Saint Charles County, Missouri, located on state highway 94. The Katy Trail State Park runs through Defiance, near the Missouri River. It was the final home of frontiersman Daniel Boone who settled in the Femme Osage valley in 1799 after receiving a Spanish land grant in 1799. Its population (2000): 3,154
The hamlet was not named during Boone's life. It was named in the late 1800s when the Katy Railroad arrived. Initially the town was to be called "Parsons" for the landowner but since there was already a Parsons, Kansas on the Katy line they considered other names including Missouriton and Bluff City before eventually coming up with Defiance because of the hamlet's defiance of rival Matson, Missouri to get a station on the line.[1]
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Missouri Rhineland
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