Compiled by Arthur Paul Moser
In compiling this Directory of Towns, Villages and Hamlets, Past and Present, of Ozark County, Mo., every effort has been made to include every known community.
I wish to thank the Research Department of the Springfield Public Library for kindly supplying certain rare books for examination.
Material examined includes the following:
Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri, 1874.
Campbell's New Atlas of Missouri, 1874.
Encyclopedia of the History of Mo., 1901, Conrad.
The State of Missouri, in 1904, Walter Williams.
Several issues of Missouri Manual.
General Scheme of Missouri, Taft, 1905, for the use of the Railway Mail Service.
A thesis by Margaret Ellen Bell, referred to as Place Names.
Several maps as indicated.
Also the following printed material is included:
Xerox copies of certain pages of Midwest Motorist, June, 1975, issued by the Automobile Club of Missouri.
Several pages from the Sunday News & Leader, concerning the mills of Ozark County.