Monticello, Missouri

Monticello, United States

Monticello, Missouri shares 24 connections with 3145 other places across 8 topics, with military history as its dominant thread. The town's Civil War ties run deep: local Confederate leader Green fought at Pea Ridge and the Siege of Vicksburg before his death there in June 1863, while Confederate bushwhackers and pro-Union forces clashed inside the county. The town takes its name from Thomas Jefferson's Virginia estate. Robert Earl Hughes, a sideshow performer from here recorded as the heaviest human being known, adds an unexpected strand to its connections.