Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Perryville, MO

Perryville is a city in and the county seat of Perry County in southeastern Missouri, with a population of 8,555 at the 2020 census, making it the county's largest city.

Perryville and Perry County were both named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the naval hero of the War of 1812.

Perryville was laid out after Bernard Layton deeded 51 acres to the county commissioners on August 7, 1821; the sale of 53 of the 99 town lots for $1,486.25 paid to build the first courthouse.

The current Perry County Courthouse is the third courthouse on the site, built in 1904 at a cost of $30,000.

Perryville was first incorporated in 1837, but that incorporation was allowed to lapse, and the city was incorporated again in 1856.

The Perryville area was first settled in 1801 by Isidore Moore, a Catholic from Kentucky invited in by the Spanish colonial government, on an open grassland between the Saline and Cinque Hommes creeks known as "The Barrens."

Census Bureau figures for 2020-2024 count about 3,318 households in Perryville, with about 2.48 people per household.

Just north of Perryville, Missouri's National Veterans Memorial features the only full-size black granite replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial outside Washington, D.C., etched with more than 58,000 names copied exactly from the original wall.

The veterans memorial was built on 46 acres of farmland donated by Perryville native Jim Eddleman, who vowed during the Tet Offensive in 1968 to one day honor his fallen comrades; the wall was completed in 2018 and the memorial dedicated in May 2019.

Perryville is home to the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal at St. Mary of the Barrens, founded in 1818, whose seminary was the first institution of higher education west of the Mississippi River and which today features the largest Rosary Walk in North America.