Lamine, Missouri

Lamine is an unincorporated community in Lamine Township, in Cooper County, in the U.S. State of Missouri.[1]

History

Lamine was laid out in 1888,

1915 map of Lamine, Cooper County, Missouri from p. 13 of the Standard Atlas of Cooper County, Missouri, State Historical Society of Missouri

from land dedicated by John A. Fray, Martha E. Fray, Columbus Higgerson, and Mary F. Higgerson as witnessed on 24 July 1888 by Harvey Chalfant Turley, William Holland Turley, and Anna B. (Herndon) Turley with W. G. Pendleton as the Notary Public ...(see 1888 Dedication of Lamine).

Lamine takes its name from the nearby Lamine River.[2]

Lamine is the only town ("unincorporated community") in the greater Lamine Township.

A post office called La Mine was established in 1838, and remained in operation until 1924.[3]

Mellor Village and Mounds Archeological District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 with a boundary increase in 1974.[4]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lamine, Missouri
  2. "Cooper County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.



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