Potosi, Missouri Potosi, Missouri Location of Potosi, Missouri Location of Potosi, Missouri Potosi is a town/city in Washington County, Missouri, United States.

It is the governmental center of county of Washington County. The town/city was established sometime between 1760 and 1780 as "Mine a Breton" or Mine au Breton, and later retitled by Moses Austin for the Bolivian silver-mining town/city of Potosi. Potosi is positioned at 37 56 16 N 90 46 55 W (37.937881, -90.781932). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.33 square miles (6.03 km2), all of it land. Tomb of Moses Austin and Maria Brown Austin in Potosi behind the Presbyterian church assembled in 1832 Firmin Rene Desloge, who emigrated from Nantes, France in 1822 as the progenitor of the Desloge Family in America, positioned in Potosi and established a mercantile, distillery, fur trading and lead smelting business.

The Desloge lead quarrying company Desloge Lead Company and later Desloge Consolidated Lead Company was later relocated to Bonne Terre, MO and also Desloge, MO by his son Firmin V.

The Potosi Correctional Center, which opened in 1989, homed Missouri's death row and the state's executions were handled at the prison until 2005.

The Potosi Center conducted all but one of the 62 Missouri executions between 1989 when capital punishment was reinstated and 2005 when executions were moved 25 miles east to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. The George Cresswell Furnace, Palmer Historic Mining District, Washington County Courthouse, and Washington State Park CCC Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.2% White, 2.2% African American, 0.4% Native American, 0.4% Asian, 0.3% from other competitions, and 1.6% from two or more competitions.

There were 1,114 homeholds of which 32.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 37.0% were married couples living together, 17.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.0% were non-families.

The median age in the town/city was 39.1 years.

24.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.9% were from 25 to 44; 24.3% were from 45 to 64; and 18.7% were 65 years of age or older.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.60% White, 2.14% African American, 0.45% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.23% from other competitions, and 1.43% from two or more competitions.

There were 1,103 homeholds out of which 33.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.1% were married couples living together, 17.7% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.6% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.7% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 18.0% who were 65 years of age or older.

The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $17,702, and the median income for a family was $23,958.

About 28.1% of families and 31.4% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 42.7% of those under age 18 and 13.9% of those age 65 or over.

The United States Postal Service operates the Potosi Post Office. The Potosi Correctional Center of the Missouri Department of Corrections is positioned in an unincorporated region in Washington County, near Potosi. The prison homes male death row inmates. Firmin Rene Desloge, progenitor of the Desloge Family in America Desloge, Founder Desloge Consolidated Lead Company and Desloge, Missouri and Bonne Terre, Missouri United States Enumeration Bureau.

Christopher D Desloge, second great-grandson of Firmin Rene Desloge The Desloge Chronicles, 2011, by Christopher D Desloge The State Historical Society of Missouri.

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

"Enumeration of Population and Housing".

"Potosi Correctional Center (C-5)" "11593 State Highway O Mineral Point, MO 63660" Historic maps of Potosi in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Washington County, Missouri, United States