Lulu, Missouri

Lulu (also called Lula) is a populated place in Oregon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is on the Mark Twain National Forest boundary along county road 160-129 approximately one mile north of U.S. Route 160 and five miles east of Alton.[2][3]

History

A post office called Lula was established in 1908, and remained in operation until 1915.[4] The community was named after Lula Stairs, the wife of a local judge.[5]

gollark: I say we should spend half our resources on making an asteroid mining probe, probably replace the quantum computer we put our fork on (or make a few more, for research), and look at starting on a solar power swarm.
gollark: Random headcanon: the SXS Musk's AI is actually uploaded Elon Musk.
gollark: The gas dwarf? Why? Solar panels work better closer in, and we're on... Bradbury, right?
gollark: I'm sure the other probe AIs could be interested in collaborating on large-scale power generation.
gollark: If we generate power via said solar arrays, and beam it with lasers, we can also conveniently make that giant laser array Earth wanted.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lulu, Missouri
  2. Many Springs, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 65 ISBN 0899332242
  4. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  5. "Oregon County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.



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