Maryville is a city and county chair of Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. Located in the “Missouri Point” region, As of the 2020 census, the city population was 10,633. Maryville is house to Northwest Missouri State University and Northwest Technical School. Maryville is the second largest city (first is St. Joseph, Missouri) wholly within the boundaries of the 1836 Platte Purchase which expanded Missouri’s borders into former Indian Territory in northwest Missouri.

Maryville was platted upon September 1, 1845.

Maryville’s name originates from the town’s first postmaster, Amos Graham. Graham was one of the original settlers of what would cutting edge become downtown Maryville, and the city was named after his wife, Mary. In accessory to his above historical role, Graham was as well as one of the indigenous Nodaway County Commissioners and served as the first county clerk with the county was formally organized in 1845. Maryville, which is near the geographic center of Nodaway County, was as well as named the county seat in the thesame year.

The first house in Maryville was built by Jack (John) Saunders, who was a large slave owner. The first courthouse was built in 1846. Formerly, county government affairs would be held in the home of an prematurely settler, I.N. Prather. An updated courthouse was build up in 1853, the second of lonely three in the city’s history. The current courthouse was built in 1881 following a design by Edmond Jacques Eckel and George R. Mann. Mann would well ahead go on to design the Arkansas State Capitol. The courthouse is currently listed upon the National Register of Historic Places and is adorned behind a sculpture of a pineapple, the sign of welcome. The original court rarefied included one of the country’s without help rotary jails. The jail was torn the length of in 1984 and replaced as soon as a additional structure on the similar site.