Jefferson City, Missouri
The new state legislature decided to build a new capital city in the middle of the state in 1821. They named it after Thomas Jefferson, who was still alive.  A village was already there called Lohman's Landing.  For years the village was little more than a trading post located in the wilderness about midway between St. Louis and Kansas City.  In 1826 the Missouri legislature first met here and in 1839 the settlement was incorporated as a city.