Galena, the seat of justice for Stone County, stands 1,016 feet above sea level on the James River, where explorer H.R. Schoolcraft reported seeing lumps of galena in the clear water during his 1818-19 Ozarks trip. First known as Jamestown, the town was originally settled in the 1830's to the south, and after Stone County, named for pioneer Judge W. T. Stone, was organized in 1851, the present location and name were adopted. Stone County lies in the oldest mountain region in the U.S.; prehistoric Ozark Bluff Dweller Indians lived there in 7000 B.C., the Osage claimed the territory until 1808, and Delaware Indians lived along the James River between their 1818 land cession in Cape Girardeau County and their final Missouri land cession in 1829. The county benefited from the Wilderness Road, a north-south Indian and pioneer trail, and from later routes including the Butterfield Mail route of 1856-61, soon called the Wire Road, while the White River R.R. (Mo. Pac.) arrived in 1904. In the Missouri Ozarks, Galena serves a county in the Shepherd of the Hills region, famed for beauty, legends, and folklore; Civil War guerrilla raids halted growth, but after the war the area developed as resort and farming land. Float trips from Galena to Branson on the James and White rivers became famous, Stone County became one of Missouri's top tomato producers, and the region's points of interest include Shepherd of the Hills Country, Table Rock Dam, Lake, and resort area, and Fairy, Marvel, and Old Spanish caves. Among Stone County settlers were John B. Williams, who opened one of Missouri's early powder mills in 1835 at Cape Fair, Indian trader Joseph Phillabert, Jacob Yocum, Schoolcraft's guide, and later Truman S. Powell, while Representative Dewey Short was a native of Galena and folklorist May Kennedy McCord lived there as a youth.