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Log In Sign Up. State Committee in , , and , and in and he was a delegate at large from Missouri to the Republican National Convention. Elliot; C. It is nearly in the center of the county from north to south, and lies on the eastern edge of the county. The Township was laid out when Pettis County was organized in the winter of It then occupied most of the northeast quarter of the county, and was not reduced to its present dimension till George W.

Smiley came to this township in , from Kentucky, and gave it the name "Bowling Green, because he loved his native state and its beautiful town of Bowling Green. Gannett thinks it was originally borrowed from Bowling Green in Yorkshire, England.

Murray Vol. Known as the Broadway High School at present. Named for the street on which it is located. A school in the eastern part of Blackwater Township. Named for the brook nearby. A school in the southern part of Dresden Township.

Named for James Brown, a landowner in the district, who came to Dresden Township in Chapman ; HIST. A station on the S.

Railroad in Pettis County, five miles south of Sedalia. Named from a nearby spring, called Brown Spring. H: Polk ; Miss Inez Terry. A small stream in the southwest part of Cedar Township, which flows north into Muddy Creek.

Takes its name from the abundance of brush along its course. A school in the southeastern part of Smithton Township. Named for the brushy timber surrounding it. The building cannot be seen for the brush. Probably a personal name. H: Cram Atlas. A school in the center part of Green Ridge Township.

Public Schools ; L. Ream; C. A creek which rises in central Houstonia Township and flows north into Saline County. County Plat Book ; Mrs. A post office in , in the southwetern part of Bowling Green Township. A humorous name, given because people thought the village would never really materialize. The familiar Americanism originated near the end of the debate on the Missouri "Question" in the 16th Congress, when a member from Buncombe County, North Carolina rose to speak.

Several members begged him to desist, but he declared that the people of his district expected it, and that he was going to make a speech for Buncombe. Consequently, the word means "talk talk" or humbug. I, Part II, B. Menefee; Gannett. A school in the southeastern part of Lake Creek Township. The name commemorates a familiar and famous event in American History, the famous battle of the Revolutionary War, fought June 17, It was chosen because the school is located on the top of a hill.

A post office from ; in the southeastern part of Prairie Township on Camp Branch Creek, for which it is named. A station on the M. A creek which rises in the eastern part of Elk Fork Township, flows across the southern part of Prairie Township, and empties into Flat Creek Township. Named Camp Branch because early settlers came and camped here during revival meetings. A school four miles southwest of Sedalia.

F Scotten. Incorporated at Georgetown in Probably named for its founder. A bluff near the junction of Cedar Creek and Muddy. Named for the cedar shrubs which grow on the bluff. A private school in Blackwater Township. Unidentified at present. By an order of court at the February term, , Cedar Township was created. Named Cedar in , because of the cedar shrubs which grew abundantly on Cedar Bluff, near the junction of Cedar Creek and Muddy Creek. Prior to , Cedar Township was included in Mt.

Sterling Township. A school in the eastern part of Washington Township. Named becaue it gives a central view of the surrounding prairie. Created by G. Coleman, former County Superintendant.

H: Rep. Schools ; C. A railroad that passes through the extreme southwest corner of Greenridge Township in Pettis County, running into Benton County through Brandon, Ionia, and east into Morgan County, passing through Stover, Versailles, and Pacific, leaving Morgan County through the south-central boundary, and crossing into Miller County. It was authorized by a special act of the Illinois legislature in and was amended in Construction of the railroad began in Chicago in , and reached the Mississippi River in Named for its termini.

Showalter 1; Highway Map; Enc. Called originally, the old Union Church, for the united denominations which organized it. Later called Christian, with similar interdenominational significance. Organized May 6, , in Elk Fork Township. The reason for the name has not been discovered. Cotton; Miss Inez Terry. In Bowling Green Township. Clifton is a stock name for American towns, found more than thirty times in as many different states.

It has sometimes been borrowed from Great Britain, which has three Cliftons, but oftener perhaps was conferred as suitable for a high place. A creek in Heath's Creek Township. Crosses Prairie Township. Named because of the many raccoons found near it. A school in the northeastern part of Washington Township. Named because it was first taught in the teacher's home.

A Baptist Church in the southwestern part of Blackwater Township, established in The building is now closed. Named because of its location on the county line between Pettis and Johnson Counties. A tributary to Muddy Creek.

Named for the bends in the creek, which make it very crooked. At Sedalia. Named for its location on the edge of a hill. A sulphatic mineral spring flowing from a sandstone member of the Coal Measures, about two miles south of La Monte near Muddy Creek.

Named for the clear, transparent appearance of the water. A school on the southern border of La Monte Township. Named for springs nearby. When present County Superintendant Scotten attended, the only picture on the walls was a large white canvas painting of the springs. Scotten; G. A post office since ; in the center part of Dresden Township, seven miles west of Sedalia.

Laid out in the spring of , by Agee and Thomas J. Agee came from Kentucky, and Mr. Lester from Virginia. Incorporated in Campbell's Gaz. Probably named from the beautiful city of Dresden, the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony, in the southern part of the German Empire, as it was the seat of German settlers. Dresden is a city where elaborately decorated and delicately colored porcelain figures are made. Hence, Dresden is used to designate anything of a delicate prettiness.

Fifteen places in the United States bear the name of this German city. Campbell's Gaz. Organized in ; until it had been a part of Blackwater Township. When the lines were changed, the territory was divided between Elk Fork, and Mount Sterling Townships. Named for the town of Dresden. Campbell ; HIST. A post office from , ; in the southern part of Flat Creek Township.

Named for Peter Dump, who lived here. A village in northwestern Blackwater Township, twenty miles northwest of Sedalia. It stands on the borderline between Pettis and Johnson Counties, and has been claimed by both counties.

Hence the history of the name has already been discussed in Miss Johnson's thesis. Dunkley opened a store there. Dunkley was born in in London, England, and came to Missouri from Ohio in Very soon the common suffix -burg was substituted for "Store," and the name became Dunkleysburg, later shortened to Dunksburg. In the high political excitement during and after the Civil War, the charge was made that Dr. Dunkley was a Confederate sympathizer, and a determined attempt was made to change the name to Sigel, the post office established here being actually named Sigel from to This was an attempt to honor General Frans Sigel , one of the best known Union officers in Missouri.

Three other towns were named for him, in Illinois, Michigan, and Pennsylvania respectively. Louis in , where he was a teacher in the German Institute. On the outbreak of the war, he organized a regiment of infantry and took a prominent part in the engagement at Dug Springs and the Battle of Wilson's Creek. Later he was credited with winning the Battle of Pea Ridge by a well timed assault, and was promoted to major general.

After the war was over, he entered journalism and removed to New York City, playing an important political role as leader of German-Americans. His later activities brought him many enemies, and his popularity in Missouri declined. Probably for this reason the name Sigel fell into disfavor, and the original name Dunksburg was resumed. The name of the post office was changed back to Dunksburg in , and so remained till , when it was discontinued.

The village is still known only as Dunksburg. A school on the western border of Blackwater Township. A school in the northwestern part of La Monte Township. The first Prairie Grove School was located on the wide prairie, and was given a descriptive name. Later the school district was divided. The eastern portion was called East Prairie Grove School, because of its geographical location. A school in the west-central part of Blackwater Township. Named from the Garden of Eden, with reference to its low and fertile location.

A school in the north-central part of Blackwater Township. Named for the elder trees growing on the ridge of land. Clarence Ray. Services are now held there. Named for the mythical country of the Golden Man sought by adventurers in South America.

It is used figuratively to mean any country of wealth, or the land of desire. More than fifteen other places in the United States bear the name. A community church in the southwest part of Elk Fork Township. This building was razed, and rivalry in the congregation caused the Methodists and Christians to try to surpass each other in erecting elaborate buildings. Now defunct. For the name cf. Ream; Gannett. Named for the deer which were attracted to this place, and shed their horns.

A post office in , in Elkfork Township. Named from Elkfork Creek. Postal Guide; Mrs. Named by the early trappers and hunters because of the abundance of elk, deer, and other game along its banks. Organized in , as one of the five original townships. It included most of the territory now comprised in Elkfork, Washington, and Green Ridge townships, and it was not until that it was finally reduced to its present boundaries.

Named for the creek which flows through it. A branch in the southwestern part of Green Ridge Township. Named for the many elm trees that grow near its banks. A school in the southwestern part of Green Ridge Township. Named for Elm Branch Creek. Named for Jas. Embree, who owned land on its banks. Brown A public school in Sedalia at Twenty-fourth and Ohio Avenue. Named for Eugene Field, a Missouri poet, born in St. Louis He worked on newspapers in St.

He wrote and printed collections of children's poems. A little store near the west-central part of Green Ridge Township. A doubtful etymology derives the name from "ewer" which in the O. It is more likely to have been a personal or family name. Bradley Vol. A post office since ; in the northern part of Elkfork Township. A descriptive name, the setting being unusually beautiful. More than thirty other American places bear this popular name. H: Missouri Gaz.

A town in the northwestern part of Smithton Township. Laid out in , soon after purchasers of property in Priceville q. Named for the fact that it was laid out by the farmers in the township. A post office from ; in the southwestern part of Hughesville Township. Named for S. Finch, who ran a store in his yard and was postmaster. Spelled Fince in the county history, obviously a misprint.

A Presbyterian church east of Hughesville, near the present Hughesville Cemetery. It was thought by the organizers to be the first church in Pettis County. Also known as "Old Brick Church.

The discrepancy seems to arise from its two branches. The one that bears the name Flat Creek on most maps rises in Elk Fork Township, but a more southern branch rises in northeastern White Township of Benton County, flows north across the county line just west of Ionia into Washington Township of Pettis County, and joins the other branch on the border between Sedalia and Flat Creek Townships.

This southern branch is marked on some maps as South Flat Creek q. The name has been explained as descriptive of the bottom of the creek bed, which is very flat and wide. It seems more likely that it is either a translation of an earlier French name Riviere Platte, or at least influenced by the sense of the French adjective plat, i.

Preuitt; Lee T. Sims; Dr. A Baptist church, five miles south of Smithton, organized September 23, Named from the creek, which is nearby. It was one of the five original townships laid out when the county was organized in , and then included most of the southeastern quarter of the county, as far north as Flat Creek, for which it was named.

In it was reduced by the creation of Sedalia, Smithton, and Lake Creek Townships, and no longer touches the stream. A park near the southern side of Sedalia. Named for its abundance of trees and forest-like appearance. The name was probably suggested by the famous Forest Park of St.

Scruton 12; W. A school in Sedalia on the northwest corner of Moniteau and Cooper Streets; built in Named for Benjamin Franklin, an American philosopher, statesman, and man of letters He was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly from He was made a member of the French Academy of Science in He was a minister to France.

A school in the southern part of Longwood Township. Named for Chas. Fristoe of the district. Scotten; Mrs. A post office from ; on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, six miles south of Sedalia, in the northern part of Flat Creek Township. Sometimes known as White's, which was a post office from A school for colored people, located in Sedalia; opened for students January 25, It was organized in , and was a gift of Mrs.

Smith and Mrs. Cotton, daughters of General George R. Smith, for whom see under Smithton, below. A village near the center of Cedar Township, three miles north of Sedalia. It was the county seat from to , and is listed as a post office from to When the original location of the county seat at St. Helena now Helena, q. Smith for whom see under Smithton , and he named it in honor of his old Kentucky home, Georgetown, in Scott County, Kentucky, where he had been born and from whence he and General Smith started with their families on the long journey out to Missouri.

General Smith and Judge Ramey manufactured the brick for the new courthouse and erected the building, which was completed December 16, By Georgetown had become a flourishing little town of some inhabitants. Nevertheless, as work advanced on the new Pacific Railroad, and it had reached as far as Washington, Missouri it became apparent to General Smith that Georgetown was doomed. The line of the road passed three miles south of the town. It was for this reason that he removed to the present site of Sedalia q.

His foresight was ridiculed by most of the people at Georgetown, but it was justified by events; the old county seat steadily declined, and Sedalia took its place in Georgetown, Kentucky, was incorporated in and name for George Washington.

There are twenty-five Georgetowns in the United States, about a third of them being named, according to Gannett, for King George of England, about a third for the father of our country, and the other third for various and sundry Georges of less renown. A Disciple's Church at Georgetown, organized before The congregation moved to Sedalia in , when the county seat was moved there.

Named for the village. A college in Georgetown, founded in , which had a high reputation. A church ten miles northeast of Hughesville and about six miles north of Beaman in Heath's Creek Township. A Bible name from Mt. Gilead, where Gideon won his famous victory Judges , or from the familiar phrase "balm in Gilead" Jer. A school in the center part of Prairie Township.

Named for a family in the district. Located five miles south of Longwood in Longwood Township; organized by Reverend Gordon Turner as a Cumberland Presbyterian School, but since has been conducted as a private school. Also known as Sunnymede School.

Both names are for location. A meadow is a lowland, having grass and wild flowers, but without trees or shrubs. Thus the mede would be both "green" and "sunny. A post office since ; in the northeastern part of Green Ridge Township, twelve and a half miles southwest of Sedalia; a station on the M. Founded in and , when the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad came through the county. Called Parkersburg in , in honor of the founder, Albert Parker, but the name was changed to the name of the post office formerly about a mile distant.

Green Ridge is probably a location name suggested by the ridge that is covered with beautiful green prairies. Postal Guide; Campbell's Gaz. It was at first a part of Elk Fork Township until , when it took its present boundaries. Named for the watershed between the waters of the tributaries of the Missouri and the tributaries of the Osage River. It is a ridge covered with green prairies interspersed with timber along the few water courses. Named for James Guier on whose land it was located.

The building was wrecked in A school in the eastern part of Houstonia Township. It is in a thicket of hazel brush, on a slight elevation. A discontinued post office, thirteen miles north of Sedalia. Named for the creek. Goodwin 19; H: Polk's Gaz. Named for Robert and John Heath, who in erected salt works at the mouth of the creek, where it empties into La Mine River. A Presbyterian church in Heath's Creek Township, organized in Named for the stream, near which it is located.

It was created in , out of part of the original Bowling Green Township. Until it included a considerable part of the present Longwood Township. Named for the stream which flows through the township. A former village in the southwestern part of Longwood Township, on Muddy Creek not far from the present town of Newland.

It was eight miles north and one mile east of Sedalia. It was originally known as Pin Hook, a name said to have been conferred by an early adventurer from Tennessee, who thought it resembled a "hard place" by that name in his native state.

The name seems to have been popular in Tennessee: there are two small villages so called in that state, one in Union County in northeast Tennessee, the other in Marion County near Chattanooga, and there is also a Pinhook Landing on the upper Tennessee River in Meigs County.

All are in the wild mountain region of eastern Tennessee. The word is used for a small fishing-hook made from a pin, and may have been deemed fitting to describe a place in a crooked valley or on the bend of a stream, such as Muddy Creek makes in the vicinity. In , when Pettis County was organized, Pin Hook was chosen as temporary county seat, but its name was almost immediately changed to the more aristocratic one of St.

The County history of quotes a court order of December 3, , using the new name. It was borrowed from the British island of St. Helena in the south Atlantic discovered by the Portuguese in and originally named for one of the greatest of Christian saints, Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine and discoverer of the true cross, who died about A.

The island is chiefly famous as the scene of Napoleon Bonaparte's exile. He was imprisoned here, at Longwood, from till his death in The adoption of this Napoleonic name is to be compared with that of Longwood q. There are seven Napoleons, thirteen Wellingtons, twenty-four Waterloos, and six St.

Helenas in the United States, furnishing ample evidence of the widespread American interest in the career of the great French commander. There was good reason why this interest should be especially active during the s, for this was the decade which saw the rise and growth of what has been called the Napoleonic legend.

After the Emperor's lonely death at Longwood in , he was forgotten for a while, but about his fame began to grow miraculously, both in France, where it was fed by the poetry of Beranger and a flood of romantic fiction, and all over the world. In his nephew Louis Napoleon made his first unsuccessful attempt to organize a Napoleonic revolution among the French soldiers stationed at Strasburg. The reigning French monarch, Louis Phillippe , tried to capitalize on the growing popular enthusiasim for his memory by bringing Napoleon's body back from St.

Helena in and burying it in a magnificient mausoleum at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. Finally in Napoleon "the Little," as he has since been called, succeeded, largely by reason of his name, in driving Louis Philippe from the throne and making himself the Emperor Napoleon III. During all this time the Napoleonic legend was powerful in America as well as France, and one of its results is manifest in an amazing number of American place-names.

Helean remained the county seat of Pettis County from till , when it was displaced by Georgetown q. After this the village rapidly declined. By general usage, the name was shortened to Helena. Little now remains of the old place but a few ruined houses. Built by Baptist, Methodist, and Christian denominations about ; cemetery was attached. The church was used for union services until It is now being operated by the Baptist denomination.

Named for its location on the point of a hill, which is also in a hickory grove. A school in the southeastern part of Elk Fork Township. Named from Hickory Point Church. A school in the north-central part of Houstonia Township. Named for Colonel Higgins, on whose farm it was built. The old colonial residence of Colonel Higgins, built in , stands yds.

Schools ; Mrs. Robert R. Named from High Point Church located nearby. A school in the northwestern part of Green Ridge Township. Named for its location in a valley, and because it was a place that gave promise of future benefits. Pettis County. Election Center Click the button below to view ballots, polling places and election results Elections home.

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