Mexico is the county seat of Audrain County, Missouri; it was founded in 1836 as New Mexico because it was a stopping point for settlers on the trail to the Republic of Texas. A local urban myth suggests that the earliest settlers found a sign with the word “Mexico” painted on it and left it in place because it was easier to name the town after the sign than to take the sign down. In 1837, it was appointed county seat under the name “Mexico,” then incorporated as a town in 1855 and chartered as a city in 1874. It was once nicknamed “Fire Brick Capital of the World" for being a major national supplier, but in time the industry collapsed; the town's two fire brick plants closed in 2002.
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