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One-half mile south of Shibboleth. Named for the discoverer. Rudolf Goff. Nothing could be learned of the source of the name. On the eastern boundary of the county, between Breton Township on the north and Belleview Township on the south. It was created by the county court at its January term in , out of a part of the earlier Big River Township q.
An ideal name, which may have been borrowed from the old Concord Presbyterian Church organized in near Caledonia, which had changed its name in to Bellevue Presbyterian Church q. At Fourche a Renault, nine miles northwest of Potosi. Named for the owner. A little east of Fourche a Renault post office. Two miles east of Cruise post office. There was good raccoon hunting there. Rose Reacr. Rises two miles northwest of Bliss and flows into Mineral Fork about one mile west of Bliss. Coon Hollow.
Jeff Higginbotham; Charles Guenther. A tiff mining section three miles northwest of Racola. Apparently a humorous nickname. Floyd Bequette; Timothy Flynn. Bluffs on each side of Big River seven miles west of Belgrade. Like Council Bluffs in Iowa they were doubtless so named because the Indians were supposed once to have held council there. A small town with a post office since Postal Guide; Mr. Called Fourche Courtois Creek in Wetmore.
Because of local pronunciation the word Courtois was sometimes spelled Cotoway or Coataway. Doubtless named for some French settler, but his identity has not been ascertained. Underground springs along the branch make this a winter harbor for crawfish.
Three-quarters of a mile east of Shibboleth. In Concord Township, three miles west of Irondale. Beck says that it is sometimes called Grand River, which is close to the original French name. Three miles east of Shibboleth. Not worked now.
Opened in , it was mined more or less regularly until Work was resumed in Probably named from Crawfish Branch. At Aptus. A Scotch hearth erected in August, , for George Cresswell.
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In the Century Dictionary, a Scotch hearth is defined as "a small ore-hearth or furnace used in Scotland and the north of England for smelting ore. The hearth-bottom and all the parts adjacent to it are of cast-iron. It is very similar to the ore-hearth in general use for the same purpose in the Mississippi Valley. A gristmill and sawmill erected by George Cresswell in the s. Probably the same as Cresswell's Lead Furnace q. Rises one mile east of Belgrade and flows into Big River one mile south of Belgrade. It is a very crooked stream; hence the name. Mentioned by Douglass, but not exactly located.
Doubtless named for its location. Douglass, , I, Presumanbly a personal name. Sullivan Quadrangle Map; Highway Map. A small town in Kingston Township. The post office was established in It was discontinued after The post office was first located in a settlement around the gristmill of Cruise Higginbotham, for whom it was named, twelve miles north of Potosi; then it was moved to the farm of Chas.
Gray; later to Kingston, and finally four miles west. Postal Guide; Mrs. Four miles north of Old Mines. Original site of Cruise post office, where the gristmill of Cruise Higginbotham was located. Rises six miles south of Delbridge and flows into Courtois Creek near Courtois post office. So named because a man killed bears along the stream.
Bryan; Harry Compton. Very near Potosi. Formerly old Willeke property. Doubtless a personal name. Eight miles west of Richwoods. So called because of a cyclone in the locality. Five miles west of Richwoods. A cyclone traveling through the country uprooted trees.
A man discovered lead at the roots of a tree; hence the name. Cyclone Hollow. Goodspeed, ; Jeff Higginbotham. Two miles northeast of Palmer. Probably a nickname; cf. Midnight Lead Diggings. Two miles north of Irondale; erected about Winslow , II, A post office from , five miles southwest of Belgrade. Charles L. Delbridge, publisher of mathematical books in St. Louis, and his associates, owned a acre tract.
The town, laid out around a large store where wreckage from trains was sold, was to be a testing of Mr. Delbridge's theory that crime and politics are the greatest handicaps to towns. These two evils were to be kept out of the town. It is now almost deserted. Postal Guide; St. Rises two and half miles west of Caledonia and flows into Big River three miles northwest of Caledonia.
Named for a family who settled on it. Owned by H. Desloge of Desloge, Missouri. Rises two miles south of Richwoods and flows into Big River eight miles east of Richwoods. These mines were discovered as early as and were worked for a number of years by a family called Eastwood. The mine was an open channel with nearly vertical walls.
About one-half mile east of Jumbo Shaft in the northeast quarter of Section 1. It is dry during the greater part of the summer. Rises near Bismarck in St. Same as Moreau's Diggings. Located in John Jones tract. Discovered some years after French Diggings. Also called Gregory Lead Diggings. Probably both were personal names. Owner or Lessee: Harrison and Company. Rises twelve miles northwest of Potosi and flows into Fourche a Renault nine miles east of its source.
Litton, , 49; Winslow, , II, Apparently not the same as above, but doubtless also a personal name. Nine miles west of Shibboleth, near Fourche a Renault. In Harmony Township. No longer worked. Possibly a personal name. A post office from , eight miles south of Potosi. Named for a family in the vicinity. Also spelled Faguaher. Litton, , 50; Winslow, , II, Named for Isaac Farmer, who owned a farm along the creek.
Jeff Higginbotham; Mrs. A small town in Kingston Township, with a post office from A name of approbation chosen by Z. Higginbotham, first postmaster. About two miles east of Baryties. Named derived from lead and tiff diggings of that name, doubtless a humorous nickname, implying a cheap or meager yield. Also called Shop Hill, from miners' blacksmith shop on the hill.
Durbin; Robert Donald. Rises five miles south of Potosi and flows into Big River two miles north of Caledonia. The name is derived from its being a shallow, rock- bottom stream. Wetmore, , ; Jeff Higginbotham. Doubtless topographical. One part of Faquaher Diggings, lying on a hill. This is apparently a different mine from the above, doubtless named for the same reason. Three miles east of Shibboleth. So named because of the flint rock in the vicinity. Apparently this is a fourth mine named for the character of the soil.
A post office from , in Walton Township. Name chosen by W. Earls, first postmaster, from a list of names sent by the government. Postal Guide; J. A tiff mining settlement one mile west of Mineral Point. Originally farmed land, so named because of a large spring on it. Rises two miles south of Cadet and flows into Mill Creek one-half mile southeast of Cadet. Named for the farm. In Union Township at Fountain Farm.
Now a part of Mineral Point consolidated district. Rises ten miles south of Potosi, flows northwest for about seven miles and then northeast for fourteen miles to meet Mine a Breton Creek to form Mineral Fork. Named for Philip Francois Renault, to whom was made a grant of mines June 14, , on the "Grand Fork of the Marameig," now Big River, and who carried on mining operations in this locality rather extensively.
Spelled in Wetmore Fourche Arniault Creek. It is shortened sometimes to 4 Shono. A settlement in Liberty Township, eight miles northwest of Potosi, with a post office from Organized in January, , under the name of Mount Zion, which name it bore until Mount Zion was the southwest hill of Jerusalem, the older and higher part of the city.
Duncan, , ; Douglass, , I, ; Mrs. The name may refer to the use of a method mining known as fractionation, applied to mixtures of different ores. Northwest portion of the La Beaume claim. Worked since about Probably named from the early French miners. A village one and a half miles south of Old Mines, on swampy ground where there are many frogs in early spring. George Wallace; Benjamin Bourisaw. Named from the Springfield Iron Furnace on it. Conard, , VI, ; Dr. Yeargain; J. In Concord Township. A hill about three miles south of Racola.
Named from a lead smelter there. Another Furnace Hill, three-quarters of a mile northeast of Baryties. Named derived from a lead smelter there. Also called McGrady Hill, for the owner of the farm there. A hollow three-quarters of a mile north of Bliss. Lead was smelted there; hence the name. Charles Guenther. Rises three-quarters of a mile north of Bliss and flows into Mineral Fork at Bliss. Named from Furnace Hollow. The name would seem to commemorate the failure or disappointment of a previous owner or prospector; but no details have been obtainable.
In Breton Township, six miles west of Potosi. Hudson Hill, named for a family, is another name for the hill upon which the church is located. One and three-quarters mile northeast of old La Beaume Mines.
Two miles southeast of Courtois post office. The cave goes straight down eighteen or twenty feet.
Rises one-half mile west of Caledonia and flows into Cedar Creek two miles northeast of Caledonia. Obviously named for the wild fowl. Moore; J. Another Goose Creek, presumably named for the same reason. Presumably a nickname from the animal. Seven miles west of Potosi, in Walton Township near Floyd.
Also known as the Granger Lead Mines. The name points to a connection with the Grange or Grangers, an association of farmers; but the reasons for its use are unknown. Wilson, HIST. One and a half miles east of Floyd, near the location of the Granger Lead Mines. Doubtless one of these took its name from the other. Four miles southeast of Anthonies Mill. Source of Ashley Branch. On land owned by Grant. Doubtless the name was descriptive of the soil. Cole; Jeff Higinbotham. Presumably named for its location near a graveyard. About six miles south of Richwoods. Named for the watercress and mint there.
At Irondale Reservation, in Concord Township. Named for Moses Grenia, who owned it and forty acres which he obtained from the government through a grant. North of Block Diggings. Jacques Guibourd of Ste. Genevieve in received a grant at Old Mines. In Bellevue valley, a branch of Big River. Louis Aubouchon dit Yoche had a claim there at the beginning of the 19th century. Just which modern stream it is to be identified with could not be determined. Houck, , I, A hollow fifteen miles west of Richwoods. The name is derived from the Hamilton Iron Works located there.
In the northwestern corner of the county, established in Operations continued until On Janes Creek in Belgrade Township. The school is on the farm of Johnny Hanson. The southwestern township, south of Walton and west of Belgrade. It was created by the county court at its January term in , when the townships were reorganized. Doubtless it took its name from Harmony, the earlier name of Palmer q.
Not worked now. Discovered by John Harper. Three miles east of Anthonies Mill. A man was hanged there during the Civil War. Rises six miles east of Delbridge and flows into Courtois Creek near Berryman. Presumably named for the shrub in the vicinity. Harry Compton. In Concord Township, three miles west of Irondale.
A name of location. This church replaced an older one called Happy Hollow Methodist Church. It is said that there was much shouting during revivals. John McCormick; Mrs. The school here was called formerly Happy Hollow School. Happy Hollow Methodist Church. Ann Martin; Mrs. Lee Martin. Two and a half miles northwest of Palmer. In Concord Township, at a settlement of that name. No longer there. Named from hickory trees which grow there.
One and a half miles south of Hopewell. Named for the man who dug it. Also called Hicks' Diggings. Barite, or heavy spar, is native barium sulphate, a common mineral in metallic veins. Buckley, , I, Two miles northwest of Cyclone School. So named because of a large number of hogs there that died of cholera. One mile south of Quaker. Named because of a hominy mill there years ago. Hominy is produced by breaking or pounding the grains of corn into coarse particles. A local story is told of a raccoon who got inside the mill and was pounded to pieces.
A small town in Breton Township, five miles southeast of Mineral Point, with a post office from It was known as Hopewell Furnace until The town was laid out in by John Evens and named from the furnace. Goodwin, ; Goodspeed, , ; Postal Guide. Rises one mile southeast of Summit and flows into Big River near Irondale. Named from the settlement. Conard, , VI, ; Henry Bone. A settlement about one mile southwest of Sunlight. Named for the Horton families who owned farms there. Four miles south of Anthonies Mill. Named from the huckleberries which grow on the ridge.
Rises about six miles south of Irondale and flows into Big River three miles west of Irondale. Called Hughes's Creek in Wetmore. Wetmore, , ; Houck, , I, 77; Dr. Two and a half miles southwest of Irondale. Now a part of Irondale consolidated district. A gristmill around which a settlement grew up near the bridge on Highway 21 between Potosi and Caledonia.
Discontinued about fifty years ago. Named for the mill owner. Goodspeed, , ; Jeff Higginbotham; Dr. Named from Hunter's Mill. Thw origin of the name has not been discovered. One mile southeast of Cruise Higginbotham Mill. The town was laid out by a man who did not remain there. The name is presumably personal, a feminine first name like Latty q. Near Caledonia. Promoted by Dabney Imboden, a landowner. Goodspeed, , ; Jeff Higginbotham; Mrs. Named from Indian relics found in the vicinity, according to some.
Brand; B. Crocker; O. It takes its name from the spring. Marshall; Fred L. A town in Concord Township, with a post office since Edwin Harrison and Company bought 13, acres around Irondale and erected an iron furnace in The company had the town surveyed and laid out by Belt and Priest, surveyors.
It was named Irondale because of the iron furnace there. Irondale was formed from the union of two settlements begun while the St. Railroad was being built, Mineral City and Log Town. Log Town, on the eastern side of Dry Creek, was so named because of five or six log houses there used as dwellings. An unsuccessful attempt was made in to change the name of Irondale to Savoy q.
Named from the town. Schmidt, , At Irondale, erected about by John G. Scott, who sold it to Edwin Harrison and Company, who continued operation until or A Boy Scout encampment near Irondale. The site was bought in by a group of St. Louisans interested in the Boy Scout movement. It is one of the largest and best equipped encampments in the United States. A post office since The name is said to have been selected from a list of names supplied by the Post Office Department. Postal Guide; D.
Rises northeast of Palmer and flows into Little Hazel two and a half miles east of Palmer. Probably named from the nearby Ismael Lead Diggings. The name is probably a corruption of Ishmael. Doubtless named for its proprietor. Potosi Quadrangle Map. Not precisely located. Hayward, , Near French Town, in Breton Township. Named for the man on whose land it was located. In the northwestern corner of the county. It was created by the county court at its January term in Named for an early settler, probably the same man who gave his name to Johnson Mountain in Iron County.
One-quarter mile from Quaker. Named for Joseph Morlatte, the preacher who helped build the church. Bryan; Mrs. A nickname, probably for great size. Shaft of Parole Mine. This seems to be a different shaft. In Walton Township. Named for Parson Keen who was buried by his request on that hill. One- quarter mile east of Dry Bone Shaft, in the northwestern quarter of Section 6. Presaumably a personal name. Near Kingston. On the eastern border of the county, southeast of Richwood Township.
It was created by the county court sometime between and , and doubtless took its name from Kingston, the earlier name of Bliss q. Louis under the Spanish regime and acted as secretary for Governor Trudeau. After the transfer of Upper Louisiana to the United States, he was made judge of the court of common pleas and colonel of militia. He owned a square league of land in the vicinity of Richwoods.
This is apparently the same as the Lebaum's Mine mentioned by Schoolcraft. The original French name was Mine a La Beaume. A French descriptive name. Houck, , I, , A post office from in Liberty Township. Named for Latty Higginbotham. It was suggested as a name for the post office by the Stephens family, who were very fond of her.
Latty may have been a variant form of Lotty, for Charlotte, or of Letty for Letitia. A post office on the St. Railroad, seven miles northeast of Mineral Point. A post office from , eight miles west of Potosi. In Belgrade. The first church building was near the mouth of Clear Creek, the next one about two miles east of Belgrade, and the third one was built in Belgrade in An ideal name. Tong, , 40; Miss Mary Relfe. For patriotic reasons the name was changed in from Lick Skillet, its former name.
According to a local story, it had been named Lick Skillet because the bachelors in the vicinity hung up the skillets for the dogs to lick. Lick Skillet was a favortie humorous nickname for places in pioneer days, implying poverty or poor manners. It occurs in Polk and Webster Counties, and elsewhere; cf. In the center of the county, with Richwood Township on the north, Union on the east, Bereton and Walton on the south, and Johnson on the west. An ideal name, like those of Union, Concord and Harmony Townships.
Rises northwest of Sunlight and flows into Hazel Creek about three miles south of Palmer. So named to distinguish it from Hazel Creek q. So named to distinguish it from Big Indian Creek. In Liberty Township, a little west of the center. As the most elevated point in the county, being about ft.
Hence the name. One mile northeast of Kellogg Shaft in the southeast quarter of Section Shaft of Martin Mining Company. A humorous nickname, the precise meaning of which has not been discovered. Its source remains unexplained. A hollow one-quarter mile northwest of Cruise post office. Named from its length. Rises one mile east of Ishmael and flows into Courtois Creek at Ishmael. It was probably named for the same reason. Rises three miles southwest of Caledonia in Belleview Township and flows into Cedar Creek two and a half miles northeast of Caledonia.
The name is a common one, usually given for streams disappearing at times underground. One mile southwest of Courtois post office. Named from its location on Indian Creek. On the Missouri Pacific Railroad. A mail station for Mineral Point. Origin unexplained. ATLAS, Douglass, , Rises at Baryties and flows into Big River two miles north of Baryties.
Named for a family who owned property along its banks. A settlement one-half mile north of Baryties. Named for a landowner and for the rich lead deposits there. Durbin; Mrs. Three miles southeast of Irondale. These diggings contributed the largest amount of mineral obtained from this locality. Shumard, , 6. In Kingston Township, at Fertile. Named from nearby maple trees. Originally called Fertile School from the settlement. Press Higginbotham; Valle Higginbotham. Near present KYRO radio station. Two miles east of Palmer. Named for James Marler, who donated the site for the chapel as his share.
The church was moved from Baugher Town to Richwoods. Named for a Methodist preacher. In lot 25 of the Old Mines property of William Long.
Operated since about Probably named for the owner. A post office from in the settlement called Hickory Grove in Concord Township, from hickory trees. A coined name, formed from the middle name and the first syllable of the last name of the first postmistress, Annette Mary Denby. Postal Guide; Nettie M. Discovered and worked since before Called Masson's Diggings by Schoolcraft, who says it was also known as Partney's.
Both names are obviously personal, for the owneres or discoverers. Near Coffee-Pot Diggings, in the region near Palmer. The name is probably personal. A number of mines are included under this title upon some 10, acres of land. Mining was begun in by Moses Austin on the Mine a Breton tract. Included on this property are Castleman, Citadel, and other old historic shafts. The name was probably personal in origin. Probably a French personal name. Rises three miles southwest of Old Mines and flows into Mineral Fork about four miles southwest of Bliss.
A nickname, perhaps because the shaft was deep and dark. Daylight Lead Diggings. Rises at Shibboleth and flows into Mill Creek at Tiff. Named from a mill on it. Perhaps named for the same reason as Mill Branch. Another Mill Creek, which joins Big River from the south. Rises at Bismarck in St. Francois County and flows into Big River near Irondale.
There was an upright sawmill and a carding machine on the creek. Formerly called Hays Creek, possibly for a resident. Also nicknamed Wenda Creek because Joe Wenda owns property along the creek. Called Miller's Mine by Schoolcraft. Rises five miles west of Potosi and flows into Mine a Breton Creek four and a half miles from its source. Named for a man who had a carding and gristmill there. Near present Potosi. Discovered about by Francois Azor dit Breton , a native of Brittany, while on a hunt. The dates and are also given for the discovery; but Schoolcraft says that the exact date would be difficult to ascertain, since Breton himself could not do so.
The spelling Mine a Burton is sometimes used. The settlement which sprang up around the mine became known as Mine a Breton. It is now a part of Potosi, south of the courthouse. Until Potosi was founded and made the county seat on February 26, , Mine a Breton was the county seat. Francois Azor dit Breton, for whom the mine and settlement were named, had his "by-name" from the province of France where he was born: Breton is the French term for an inhabitant of Brittany. Later he came to America, and was present at Braddock's defeat in He settled in Missouri at Ste.
Genevieve, where as an old man he was visited by Schoolcraft in Named from the mine. Also spelled Mine a Burton Creek. In Breton Township four and a half miles east of Potosi, discovered in Doubtless named for the owner. In Breton Township, two miles southeast of Mine a Breton, discovered about the same time. Schoolcraft gives the name as Mine a Robino. Obviously it was named for the original French owner or discoverer, whose name was probably in correct French spelled Robinot or Robineau.
In Breton Township, about ten miles west of north of Potosi, near the old Renault mine. Nothing could be discovered about the source of the name. It sounds like a humorous nickname, framed in American mouths on the model of such French names as Mine a Breton, Mine a Martin, and the like. About one mile southeast of Mine a Straddle.
Doubtless named for the town of Shibboleth, which was nearby. In Liberty Township, about eight miles west of Potosi. It lies between the Potosi and Palmer mines. Probably named for its proprietor.
Named from lead mines in the vicinity. Wetmore, , ; Goodspeed, , ; Wm. A post office since in Breton Township. The town was laid out in the late s. Named from lead mines there.
This railroad was begun at St. Louis in , and was at first called the Pacific Railroad, an ambitious title for the hope, eventually realized, that it would reach the Pacific Ocean. It was incorporated as the Missouri Pacific in In it absorbed the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad q. Miss Welty's thesis. Conard spells it Morrell Creek. Organized in Named, like so many other American churches, for the home of George Washington in Virginia.
Duncan, , ; Douglass, , I, Three miles north of Caledonia. An old church; services were discontinued about forty-five years ago. A settlement two miles southeast of Racola. A humorous nickname for a place apt to be muddy. Probably a personal name, with "Dig" used as short for Diggings. Southwest of Fertile. Five lead sites. The furnace is still standing north of Highway 21, one- half mile along Cannon Mines Creek.
The reason for the name has not been discovered. In Breton Township, a few miles southeast of Potosi, discovered in A descriptive name. Named from lead and tiff diggings there. Two miles south of Mineral Point, and four miles east of Potosi. Still worked. Boyer; Geo. One-half mile west of Fraction Lead Diggings in Sec. Perhaps means a fresh start at the old Prairie Lead Diggings q. Owned by N. Nicholson of Belgrade, Missouri.
At Palmer. Mined first about Abandoned, then reopened in by D. A nickname of location. Also called Rice School for a family in the vicinity. Walter Schmalz; Fred L. No longer worked; abandoned since It was discovered by a negro. Litton, , 50; Geo. A high elevation seven miles northwest of Shirley. The name is descriptive of its location with respect to South Knob q. James Francis Gibson. A settlement in Johnson Township, whose post office was established in and discontinued after Named for a family in that vicinity.
Postal Guide; Sam Northcutt; M. Organized by Elder Williams O. Gibson in the schoolhouse near Anthonies Mill. A topographic name. In lot 27 of the Old Mines property of William Long. So called from being discovered many years before the Mine a Breton. It is said that the Old Mines were opened and worked by M. Renault about They were abandoned about the time of the discovery of Mine a Breton. Austin, , Named from a very old lead mining settlement. From the church record of the parish of St.