Beemont, Missouri

Beemont is an unincorporated community in western Franklin County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is located on Missouri Route ZZ on the west side of Boeuf Creek one half mile east of the Franklin-Gasconade county line.[2]

History

A post office called Beemont was established in 1878, and remained in operation until 1915.[3] The community was so named in jest because its few businesses were said to be as "busy as a bee".[4]

gollark: You don't want your DNS and DHCP stuff to be at the mercy of wireless stuff.
gollark: It mucks with DHCP a bit. Besides that, if you're running pihole then hook it up over Ethernet.
gollark: Also, sadly, I think most houses lack in-wall data cables.
gollark: Network configuratiön.
gollark: Are you sure you're not just doing it wrong?

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beemont, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 2007, Third edition, p. 39, ISBN 0-89933-353-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2016.
  4. "Franklin County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 29 September 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.