Traveling Through Time With the Shelby County Historical Society
Feature on Peter Loramie. TOPIC: PEOPLE, PIONEERS, INDIANS
Written by Jim Sayre in August, 1998

LORAMIE'S LIFE AFTER SHELBY COUNTY DETAILED BY MISSOURI EDUCATOR...Pg 3
About Linda Nash

One of the earliest Europeans to enter our locale and one who prominently left his name on several of our landmarks—Peter Loramie— was featured at a joint Shelby County Historical Society/Fort Loramie Historical Society meeting on July 16, 1998.

Linda Nash of Cape Girardo, Missouri, portrays one of Loramie’s three wives as a living history character. Nash has 25 years of experience teaching history in Missouri schools. Loramie lived in Cape Girardo after leaving the area that later become Shelby County. He is buried there.

Nash traced the life of this famous character and concentrated on his life in Shelby County as the founder and proprietor of Loramie’s Trading Post which he established in 1769. After the Americans burned his trading post, Loramie moved west and eventually resided in the Cape Girardo area where he served as commandant of the Spanish district.

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Linda Nash is pictured here with Ferd Fleckenstein, whose farm is the site of the original Loramie trading post. This is one of the last photos of Ferd, who passed away within a few weeks of this historical program. Photo by Tom Homan.