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Linn, MO 65051
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Name of Place | Description / History | Location | County(s) | Postal Service | Map Index |
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? | Maries | 1858-1865 | N/A | |
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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 -
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) |
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 |
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"A discontinued PO named for the large peach orchard". (8) | Northeast of Linn. | Osage | 1870-1886 | 1892 |
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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 |
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? | Gasconade | 1825-1830E | N/A | |
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Formerly Potsdam. | Southeast of Fredricksburg near the Gasconade river. | Gasconade | 1918-1959 | N/A |
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There is a Phelps cemetery west of Cooper Hill on the Gasconade River. | Osage | 1854-1855 | N/A | |
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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 |
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Baptist Church on ridge above Buck Elk creek nearby. | Southern county, twp 41, rng 8, sec 10. | Osage | N/A | N/A |
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Previously Richland | Eastern county, Benton twp. | Osage | N/A | N/A |
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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 |
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Changed name in 1918 to Pershing. | Southeast of Fredricksburg near the Gasconade river. | Gasconade | 1894-1917 | 1897
1904 1913 1920 |
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1976 Osage County Memory Book description | East of Linn at junction of Hwy 50 and 89 north. | Osage | 1905-1920 | 1920 |
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Possibly in the area of Prairie Creek in present day Maries County. South of Brinktown in southwest county. | Osage | 1860-1865 | N/A | |
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? | Osage | 1860 | N/A | |
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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 |
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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 |