Amyx)Ī post office moved to Hocamo (q.v.) in 1932, was established by Dr. Two acres, including the spring, were purchased by the mining company to get water for the operation of the mines.

In Benton Township, southwest of Bly near the county line and Alice Mines, later Amyx Mines, in Ozark County from which it took its name. In Myatt Township, six miles east of Lanton.

Epps, moved to the community in that year, they got their mail at Albina once a week. Kinion says the post office was established as early as 1867, for when her father, Newton C. Harris kept it near Rudville School (q.v.) until Olden (q.v.) was established, when it was moved to that village. Ira May)Īn early post office kept by Albin Perkins in his home one and a half miles south of the site of Pomona. Three brothers, James, Wesley, and George Adams, settled in the community probably before the Civil War, and the school site was given by James Adams. One of the older schools, six miles southeast of West Plains, with which it was consolidated.

Adams took land at the present site of West Plains in 1839, but sold the next year to Josiah Howell. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1945.Ī Mr. 'Place Names Of Five Southern Border Counties Of Missouri.' M.A.

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