OSHS Cultural Heritage Center

Cultural Heritage Center

103 S. 4th Street
Linn, MO 65051
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Historic Towns & Places

Name of Place	Description / History	Location	County(s)	Postal Service	Map Index
Painswick		?	Maries	1858-1865	N/A
Paydown Pay Down	Milling area and river landing containing at least two mills and large sping fed branch. Iron was hauled from the Maramec Iron Works to Paydown and loaded on kneelboats but was hindered during summer months due to low water. Shipping of ore reverted back to the Old Iron Road to Hermann and other land routes during this time. (Jan 1, 1851 - Pay Down, Osage, Missouri - Postmaster - Thomas Kinsey (14) 1855 - Pay Down, p-o., Osage co., Mo. (16) 1873 Post Road - From Hermann, by Francis Peter's, on Second Creek, Mount Sterling, John B. Cooper's [Cooper's Hill], Alexander S. Rogers' [later Belle], in Galloway's Prairie, to Pay Down. Also, from Lisle, by Westphalia, Mavais, Pay Down, Kinderhook, Lane's Prairie, Spanish Prairie, Maramec, Steelville, Osage, and Harmony, to Caledonia. (15) 1874 - Ten miles northeast of Vienna on the Gasconade at the mouth of Spring Creek, is both beautifully and advantageously located and contains one wollen and carding and two grist-mills. (13) Photos	Hwy 42 between Belle and Vienna near Gasconade River.	Osage Maries	1850 1855-1856 1856-1862 1866-1932	1863 1873 1875 1892 1895 1897 1901 1904 1913 1920
Peachland	"A discontinued PO named for the large peach orchard". (8)	Northeast of Linn.	Osage	1870-1886	1892
Pea Vine	Later Grovedale. Second oldest community in Maries county, after Paydown. (11)	Northeast corner of county where Rt C (old Springfield road) and the Pea Vine creek cross.	Osage	1854-1857	N/A
Perkins		?	Gasconade	1825-1830E	N/A
Pershing	Formerly Potsdam.	Southeast of Fredricksburg near the Gasconade river.	Gasconade	1918-1959	N/A
Phelps		There is a Phelps cemetery west of Cooper Hill on the Gasconade River.	Osage	1854-1855	N/A
Pilot Knob	High point near Gasconade River used by steamboat navigators for reference.	Southern county, twp 41, rng 8, sec 3 near LeBoeuf	Osage	N/A	N/A
Pilot Knob Church	Baptist Church on ridge above Buck Elk creek nearby. Photos	Southern county, twp 41, rng 8, sec 10.	Osage	N/A	N/A
Plattners	Previously Richland 1976 Osage County Memory Book description	Eastern county, Benton twp.	Osage	N/A	N/A
Portland	1873 Post Road - From Chamois to Portland. Also, from Saint Aubertson, by Bluffton and Portland, to Rhineland. (This second listing is obviously on the north side of the river) (15)	Located on the north side of the Missouri river, but later also a stop on the Missouri Pacific railroad on the south side of the Missouri.	Callaway Osage	1832-Pres N/A	1846 1859 1861 1863 1873 1892 1895 1901
Potsdam	Changed name in 1918 to Pershing.	Southeast of Fredricksburg near the Gasconade river.	Gasconade	1894-1917	1897 1904 1913 1920
Potts	1976 Osage County Memory Book description	East of Linn at junction of Hwy 50 and 89 north.	Osage	1905-1920	1920
Prairie Creek		Possibly in the area of Prairie Creek in present day Maries County. South of Brinktown in southwest county.	Osage	1860-1865	N/A
Prairie Valley		?	Osage	1860	N/A
Prince's Ford	Alternate river ford to Bolton's downstream from Castle Rock. Engagement of Union and Confederate forces here during Gen. Price's march on Jefferson City. Orestes Prince and Sarah Prince patented land here in 1837 and 1841.	On Osage River west of Westphalia and downstream from Castle Rock (sec24, 43n, 11w)	Osage/ Cole	N/A	N/A
Pryor's Mill Priors Mill	Cut rock foundation is all that remains along with remnants of the dam. Mill was later purchased by Capt. Heckmann and became known as Heckmann's Mill. Also, see Oshawa. 1873 Post Road - From Chamois, by Bailey's Creek, Pryor's Mill, and Mount Sterling to Delphi. (15)	Northeast Osage County on Gasconade River.	Osage	1857-1861	1870 1875