It was situated on Sec. 35, Twp. 52 N, R. 18 W on an unmarked county road south of WW. (--Gen. Highway Map of Chariton Co., issued by the Missouri State Highway Dept. 11-16-61. Unless otherwise noted all map locations are from this map.)

It is situated in Sec. 2 & 3, Twp. 53 N, R. 20 W at the junction of 24 & Y east of 11.

See, also, Wetmore's Gazetteer of the State of MO., 1837, p. 273; Gazetteer of MO., 1874, Campbell, p. 134; Ency. of the Hist. of MO., 1901, Conard, Vol. 1, p. 407.

Bynumville, about 14 miles north of Salisbury, was laid out in 1878, but had an existence many years previous. The town is named for Dr. Joseph Bynum, an early settler. The little town was a splendid inland trading point. It had a bank, and several stores, a Union Church, and a newly erected Holiness tabernacle. (--(--Gehrig, p. 247.)

It is situated in Sec. 35, Twp. 56 N, R. 17 W on 129 south of the junction with P.

It is a rural branch of Salisbury post-office. Population 40. (--Standard Ref. Guide of MO., 1974, Rand McNally.)

The first Sunday School west of St. Louis was organized at Chariton, Chariton County, Mo., in the spring of 1820, by Rev. Jno. M. Peck, D. D....In 1825 the fortunes of the town of Chariton began to wane, caused by unhealthful conditions. The river overflowed and malaria came next and brought many deaths. In 1833 the county seat was moved to Keytesville and by 1840 the town was abandoned. Many people left without selling their property and in few instances leaving half-finished houses to rot and fall to the ground.

In 1831 an attempt was made to locate another town in the vicinity of Chariton, Monticello one mile east. Dr. Jno. Graves was the founder and after erecting a business building was engaged on a dwelling when he was drowned getting sand out of the river.

The town never made much growth although it was beautifully and healthfully located. In 1833 the town of Thorntonburg was founded at the mouth of the Chariton by R. B. Thornton. Capt. Thos. Joyce, of Louisville, Kentucky, had a part interest in the land on which the town sat, and after some litigation renamed it Louisville on the Missouri. It soon became a town of the past. (--(--Gehrig, pp. 215, 216; See, also, Conard, Vol. 1, p. 564, 565.)

G. Compton was postmaster in 1837. (--Wetmore, p. 273.)

Chariton is no longer listed in Chariton Co.; there is a Chariton in Putnam Co. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

It is 18 miles north of Brunswick and had 1 church, a few business houses and had about 200 inhabitants in 1874. (--Campbell, p. 134.)

It is situated at Sec. 27, Twp. 56 N, R. 21 W on Highway 139 at the junction with E.

Mail via Sumner; population 40. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

The town of Dalton was founded in 1867. The town site was the home of William Dalton, after whom the village was named, many years before it was laid out. It is located in Bowling Green Township twelve miles west of Salisbury and eight miles east of Brunswick...

Veach & Myers was the first business firm. Other early merchants were Beck, Tisdale, Tocent, Price and Buddenberg. The first postmaster bore the name Beamer.

Many of the first buildings in Dalton were built of lumber taken from a steam boat which sank in the Missouri River not far distant... (--(--Gehrig, pp. 243, 244.)

Dean Lake is the railroad name for Snyder.(--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--(--Taft, p. 22.)

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--(--Taft, p. 22.)

Forest Green in Chariton Township was founded in 1873 by John G. Forest. M. Guerin built the first house in 1873 for a general store. Covey Heryford was the first postmaster and F. Weisenhern was the pioneer blacksmith. D. Gochey was the first carpenter, L. P. Nichols was the first school principal. (--(--Gehrig, p. 247.)

It is situated in Sec. 16, Twp. 52 N, R. 17 W in the southeast corner of the county at the junction of 5 & T.

It is a rural branch of Salisbury Post Office. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

It was west of Wien. (--(--Map of MO., 1910, The Kenyon Company, Des Moines.)

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--(--Taft, p. 22.)

Mail via Bynumville; no population is shown. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

Mail via Brunswick; population 25. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

Mr. Keyte, the town's founder and for whom the town was named, erected a log cabin in 1831 near Musselfork which was the first building in Keytesville. Soon after this he erected a small business house in the corner of his yard, which was used as a store and post-office and presided over by his siter, Miss Sarah Keet (sic), who sometimes in addition to her other duties carried the mail between Old Chariton and Keytesville. J. W. Redding ranks as the pioneer hotel keeper. Dr. David Pettigrew was the first physician...Peter Lassen, a native of Denmark, was the original blacksmith... (--(--Gehrig, p. 236.)

The town was laid out in 1832 on land donated to the county by James Keyte on condition that the place be made a permanent county seat. The same year the county records and offices were removed from the old town of Chariton...September 20, 1864, a force of Confederate soldiers raided the town and burned the court house and killed the sheriff... (--Ency. of the Hist. of MO., 1901, Conard, Vol. 3, p. 533.)

It was a point of much importance during the early days of steam boating on the Missouri River. The town is now abandoned. For a number of years it was the home of General Sterling Price. The river has changed its course and is about one and a half miles from the original site of the town, which is now covered by a lake. (--Conard, Vol. 3, p. 533.)

It was north of Wien. (--(--Map of MO., 1894, Rand McNally.)

There is a Lewis in Henry County. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

Lewis Mill was in the southeast corner of Chariton Township. (--Map of MO., 1894, Rand McNally.)

Mendon, not the present town, but a settlement one and a quarter miles of the present site was laid out in 1871 by Christopher Shupe. This became a good business center. The fact had been so since 1865, before the town was laid out. The survey of the A. T. & S. F. Railroad made this town uneasy for it was missed by over a mile. The dirt work for the railroad was done in 1886, and it then became an assured fact that there would be a new Mendon on the railroad. The rails were laid out in 1887 and 1888 and the new town became a reality...

...It was known when first settled as Salt Creek. It had a church, public school, a bank, two hotels, a newspaper, The Citizen, and about twenty other businesses, both large and small, including shops and stores. Population 1899 (estimated) 350. (--Conard, Vol., p. 324.)

It is situated at Sec. 10, Twp. 55 N, R. 20 W at the junction of 11 & C.

Mail via Marceline--rural; no population is shown. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

The post office was discontinued pre 1905. (--Taft, p. 22.)

Musselfork receives mail via Keytesville and has no population. (--(--Rand McNally, 1974.))

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--Taft, p. 22.)

It was located in Missouri Township, north of Cozzell. (--Map of MO., 1894, Rand, McNally.)

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--Taft, p. 22.)

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--Taft, p. 22.)

Mail now via Mendon--rural; no population. (--Rand McNally, 1974.)

James Foster was the pioneer merchant in this village and he began business here in 1878. James Farris built the next business and dwelling house. The town was never incorporated. In 1900 an academy was built here and under the wise administration of Hon. V. S. Hall, later of Columbia, Mo., students were drawn from all parts of the State and neighboring states...

There was a bank here--Farmer's & Merchants. There were three churches. The town is also the home of an inventor, Ben Hicken, whose inventive genius gave to the world the Sodtorlite iron, a soldering iron heated by acetyline gas and whose point is ever hot. The iron was manufactured at Prairie Hill...A lumber yard had been recently established at Prairie Hill. (--Chariton County, p. 215; Campbell, p. 135.)

It is situated at Secs. 5 & 6, Twp. 54 N, R. 16 W at the junction of H & W, near the Randolph County line.

Mail via Salisbury. Population 69. (--Rand McNally, 1974.)

It was four and one-half miles west of Shannondale. (--Williams, p. 357.)

Judge Salisbury moved onto his recently acquired land in 1858, and built a box house for his temporary residence until a frame building of two rooms could be completed...The post-office was established several years before the town was laid out and John Hutchinson was the first postmaster.

In 1872, Salisbury was swept by a tornado...In 1877...and again in 1882, Salisbury was visited by destructive fires... (--Gehrig, pp. 241, 242.)

It was laid out in 1860, by Judge Lucius Salisbury, but did not grow any until the close of the (Civil) War, so its founding practically dates from 1866. In 1868 it was first incorporated... (--Conard, Vol. 5, p. 477.)

It contained 2 hotels, 3 tobacco factories, 1 saw mill, a first class flouring mill, 3 wagon, plow and agricultural implement manufactories, 1 cooper shop, 2 lumber yards, 4 churches, a public school, a public library of 500 volumes, the general offices of the K. & K. C. R. R., 1 newspaper...and about 40 stores and business houses... (--Campbell, p. 135.)

It is situated at Secs. 3 & 10, Twp. 53 N, R. 17 W at the junction of 129, 24 & H.

Shannon, on the K. & K. C. R. R., five miles south of Salisbury, had 1 store. (--Campbell, p. 135.)

It was in Salisbury Township. (--Gehrig, p. 229.)

Rothville in Yellow Creek Township came into being about 1868, although the town plat was not filed until 1883. A man by the name of Bristol erected the first business house and John Roth for whom the town was named commenced a business in one end of his dwelling house the same year. Bristol was the first postmaster and H. K. Custer was an early merchant... (--Gehrig, p. 244.)

It is situated at Sec. 19, 20, Twp. 56 N, R. 19 W on Highway E east of A.

Snyder Post-Office or Dean Lake, so named was on Sectional (--Map of MO., 1894.) In Triplett Township.

It is situated at Sec. 3, Twp. 54 N, R. 21 W near Carroll County line.

The birth of Sumner meant the death of Cunningham on the south for the Wabash transferred its station to Sumner from Cunningham. Business interests began to move to the town. Churches migrated and after a while about that Cunningham had was the school house.

Sumner is not far distant from Laclede and many of its older citizens knew Gen. Pershing well, and Prairie Mount School, now a part of Consolidated District No. 3 of Linn County, claims the distinction of his having taught a term of school there. (--Gehrig, pp. 246, 247.)

It is situated in the northwest corner of Section 22, Twp. 55 N, R. 21 W at the junction of E & 139 west of YY.

Sumner is a village at the junction of the Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City and Wabash Railroads. It is thirty miles northeast of Keytesville and was formerly called Crossland. (--Conard, Vol. 6, p. 126.)

The post-office was discontinued pre 1905. (--Taft, p. 22.)

Triplett came into being in 1870. The railroad, the Brunswick & Chillicothe R. R., now the Wabash High Line, put it on the map because it needed a station there...

The land on which the city of Triplett was laid out belonged to Alex Hooper and John E. M. Triplett and it was the latter who built the first house in the town and for whom the town was named...

J. Hignite was the first school teacher and the school house was in the south part of town. Johnson Reed was the town's first postmaster. William Asher was the village blacksmith and Geo. Blake was the first carpenter...Triplett was not incorporated until 1881. (--Gehrig, pp. 245, 246.)

It is situated in the southwest corner of the county at Sec. 18, Twp. 54 N, R. 20 W on Highway M.

It is an incorporated village, seventeen miles northwest of Keytesville. The place was formerly called Porche's Prairie. It had not over a half a dozen houses until the building of the Wabash Railroad... (--Conard, Vol. 6, p. 318.)

Westville, in Clark Township, was laid out in 1857 by Dr. W. S. West, for whom it is named. The first business house was erected by Smith & Hagler. (--Gehrig, p. 247.)

Westville, a hamlet was one of the oldest places settled in the county. It was a prosperous town until the construction of the Santa Fe Railroad built up the rival town of Mardeline in Linn County. It now (1899) has a population of 100. (--Conard, Vol. 6, p. 451.)

It is situated at Sec. 25, Twp. 56 N, R. 22, south of Linn County.

Mail via Marceline. No population is shown. (--Rand McNally, 1974.)

The post-office was discontinued October 31, 1919. Thereafter mail via New Cambria, Macon County. (--MO. Manual, 1919-20, p. 732.)

It is situated at Sec. 14, Twp. 56 N, R. 17 W on 129 south of Macon County line.

Population 40. (--Rand McNally, 1974.)

It is a hamlet in the northeastern part of the county, with a population of about 200--1899. It was the seat of a Franciscan Monastery (Mount St. Mary's), around which the town was built. This monastery was established in 1877. (--Conard, Vol. 6, p. 465.)

It was named for Wien (Vienna) Austria, Hungary, 1877. (--Ramsay, p. 33.)

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