Gaines, Missouri

Gaines is an unincorporated community in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

History

A post office called Gaines was established in 1883, and remained in operation until 1904.[2] The community has the name of Ben Gaines, the original owner of the town site.[3]

gollark: Python's == is also nontransistive in some situations, though.
gollark: Ugh. Yes.
gollark: `is` tests object identity (in CPython, "same memory location") or something and not, well, actual equality, so it's just bizarre and esoteric and does *not* need its own operators.
gollark: I'm aware `is not` is a single operator. It's just vaguely weird.
gollark: ```python>>> 'something' is not NoneTrue>>> 'something' is (not None)False```python.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gaines, Missouri
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. "Henry County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)



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