A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets
Past and Present
of Clay County, Missouri

Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser

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Bibliography and Acknowledgements

In compiling this Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets Past and Present, of Clay County, Missouri, an effort has been made to include every known community.

I wish to thank the staff of the Reference Department of the Springfield-Greene County Library, who, very graciously, made certain rare books and maps available for examination.

Material examined includes the following:

• Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri, 1874.
• Campbell's New Atlas of Missouri, 1874.
• History of Clay & Platte Counties, 1885.
• History of Clay County, 1920, Woodson.
• Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 1901, Conard.
• The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams.
• General Scheme of Missouri, 1905, Taft, for the use of Railway Mail Clerks.
• Several maps as indicated.

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