A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets
Past and Present
of Howell 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 Howell County, Missouri, every effort has been made to include every known community in the county.

I wish to thank those people who assisted me in compiling the material for this directory:

They are:

Mr. E.J. Shelton, West Plains, who kindly reviewed this material.

He was assisted by

Mrs. Aline Chapin, Route 1, West Plains, and her husband, Russell Chapin, who were "quite a bit of help on Chapin and Torreyton".

and

"Mrs. Dorothea Reavis helped a lot, since she is very interested in genealogy."

And to the staff in the Reference Department at the Springfield-Greene County Library who made rare books available for research.

And to the West Plains Public Library for information concerning Moody.

Material examined for this directory includes the following:

• Gazetteer of Missouri, 1874, Campbell.
• New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, Campbell.
• The State of Missouri in 1904, Walter Williams.
• Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, 1901, Conrad, Vol. 3.
• A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, Goodspeed Bros.
• Several issues of Missouri Manual.
• Several maps as indicated.
• Place Names of Five Southern Border Counties of Missouri, by Cora Ann Pottenger, B.S. in Ed., submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Graduate School in the University of Missouri, 1945. This study is on Micro-film at the Springfield Greene-County Library.

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