Jefferson City, Missouri

Jefferson City is now up in CAPITALS.

Jefferson City is another in a long list of cities named after presidents. The reason this city was chosen as the capital is simple: location, location, location. The two main population centers were on opposite east-west extremes. Jefferson City was conveniently in the middle. At the time, the city was merely a quaint little town. Today it is a slightly larger, slightly less-quaint little town.

Jefferson City, Missouri