OSHS Cultural Heritage Center

Cultural Heritage Center

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Linn, MO 65051
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Historic Towns & Places

Name of Place	Description / History	Location	County(s)	Postal Service	Map Index
Hadley	There are still a couple of old structures remaining here, but completely grown over with trees and brush.	Extreme eastern edge of county on Rt C.	Maries	1907-1908	1920
Hayden		South central county on Rt E.	Maries	1890-1972	1895 1897 1904 1913 1920
Heck		Appears to be very near or the same location as Hadley.	Maries	1900-1904	1904 1913
Heckmann's Mill	Formerly Pryor's Mill.	Northeast of Osage County on Gasconade River.	Osage	N/A	N/A
Hermann	German settlement and present location of Gasconade County courthouse. Jan 1, 1851 - Hermann, Gasconade, Missouri - Postmaster - Christopher Moller (14) 1855 - Hermann, p-v. [postal village], Gasconade co., Mo. ...Situated on the right bank of the Missouri r. It contains a court house, a Roman Catholic church, several stores, a printing office, issuing a weekly newspaper, & a monthly publication, & 500 inhabitants. The cultivation of the vine in the vicinity has been entered into with much spirit by the inhabitants, who are pricipally of German descent, & wine has been made to the amount of 20,000 gals. for a few years past. Pop. of the t., 943. (16) 1873 Post Road - From Danville, by Big Spring, Dry Fork Mills, Rhineland, and Loutre Island, to Hermann. From Hermann (see image). (15)	North side of Gasconade County on the Missouri River.	Gasconade	1838-Pres	1846 1859 1861 1863 1873 1875 1878 1892 1895 1897 1901 1904 1913 1920
High Gate	Named after High Gate England where original immigrants came from.	Eastern county at junction of Rt's H & U.	Maries	1877-1971	1892 1895 1897 1901 1904 1913 1920
High Grove	1873 Post Road - From Hermann, by Drake, Owensville, Canaan, and High Grove, to Rolla. (15) 1874 - A post office on Spanish Prairie ten miles north northwest of St. James, it's nearest railroad station, and about eighteen miles southeast of Vienna. (13) This portion of the county was transferred to Maries from Crawford around 1862.	Southeastern corner of county.	Crawford Maries	1856-1862 1862-1909	1873 1895 1897 1901 1904 1913
Holliway's	Postmaster was Jonathan Holliway. Mr. Holliway took out two seperate land patents at this location. One in 1836 for the E1/2NE, sec 25, twp 43, rng 10 and another in 1840 for the SWS1/2, sec 19, twp 43, rng 10. John Thompson also had a store on Big Maries before Westphalia's time. (17) Thompson's land patent of 1837 was just across the river from Holliway's.	Just north west of Westphalia on the Maries River. Access by Rd 609 on the north and Rd 610 on the south.	Gasconade	1832-1834	N/A
Honseville	"Honseville was a store and PO in Spring Creek twp. It was named for Robert Honse, storekeeper. It was formerly called Bert for Bert Allen, postmaster". (8)	Springcreek township southeast of Vienna.	Maries	N/A	N/A
Hope	Formerly Boegers and then Boeger's Store 1915 Business & Individual Directory description 1941 Osage Co. Centennial description 1976 Osage County Memory Book description	Eastern Osage County on Rt. N.	Osage	1897-1974	1901 1904 1913 1920