New Garden, Missouri

New Garden is an unincorporated community in Ray County, in the U.S. state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.[1]

History

A post office called New Garden was established in 1851, and remained in operation until 1883.[2] The community most likely took its name from a nearby church of the same name.[3]

gollark: Probably not that many? I'd assume lots of people photograph geese and then post it to social media or just store it locally. The dataset presumably only contains ones which someone submits.
gollark: Web crawlers and a goose classifier.
gollark: (I have VPSes with little storage and fast network connectivity, and my server with lots of storage but a slow network, but nothing with a fast network and lots of storage)
gollark: I might actually be able to store and index them, then.
gollark: Huh, I had estimated 200GB.

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: New Garden, Missouri
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 12 December 2016.
  3. "Ray County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.



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