On Highway 60, one and onehalf miles west of Mountain View. It was located at Section 34, Township 22 N, Range 10 W, on Highway 160 near the west edge of the county.
No one seems to know why this name was chosen. Cox explains that several names were sent in by the community, but the Postal authorities disregarded all of them and named it Arditta. The store passed to various owners, but the post-office was discontinued in 1834. Cox in his store at the head of Vaughn Hollow, now on Highway 80. (- Place Names.) Ī post-office established in 1903 and kept first by Mr. Black, district postmaster, suggested the name for his daughter. Rebecca Gill for a short time before the Carter Store of Amy took charge of the mail. James Black and kept in a store on his farm one and one-half miles no of the present site of Amy until 1903, when it was moved to the home of Mrs. Unless otherwise specified, all map locations are from this map.) AmyĪ post-office moved to Hocomo (q.v.) in 1932, was established by Dr. (- General Highway Map of Howell County, issued by the Missouri State Highway Department, 10-1-67. It was located at Sections 1 & 2, Township 22 N, Range 10 W, on Highway FF, south of Highway 160. 257.) AmyĪ small village in Benton Township, named for the earlier post-office, (q.v.). (- Campbell's Gazetteer of Missouri, Campbell, 1874, p. (- Place Names.)Īlbina was a post-office four miles north, northwest of West Plains. Epps, moved to the community in that year, they got their mail once a week. Kinion says that when 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. (See Town Spring.) (- Place Names.) Albina An early post-office kept by Albin Perkins in his home one and one-half miles south of the site of Pomona. Adams took land at the present site of West Plains in 1839, but sold the next year to Josiah Howell. A Directory of Towns, Villages, and HamletsĪ.
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