Hickory Barren, Missouri
Hickory Barren is an unincorporated community in northern Greene County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is on Missouri Route H, two miles north of Fellows Lake. Fair Grove is approximately four miles to the northeast.[2]
History
A post office called Hickory Barren was established in 1846, and remained in operation until 1906.[3] The community was named for a grove of hickory trees near the open, or "barren", town site.[4]
gollark: Well, if you want the blueshifting it does have to go quite fast.
gollark: The easiest way to cook things quickly is of course to vent a fusion reactor's plasma in its direction.
gollark: Due to relativistic time dilation.
gollark: Of course, this method does result in a somewhat slow cooking process.
gollark: If you accelerate the rice enough, would it not experience blueshifted light energetic enough to cook it? Or is that what you said but more fancily?
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hickory Barren, Missouri
- Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 52, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- "Greene County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 3 October 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.