Sweet Home, Missouri

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Sweet Home cemetery northeast of Ravenwood, Missouri SweetHomeCemetery.jpg
Sweet Home cemetery northeast of Ravenwood, Missouri

Sweet Home is an extinct hamlet in Nodaway County, Missouri, in the United States. [1] It was situated 12 miles east of Maryville and 2.5 miles east of the Platte River. [2] [3] [4] Another source places Sweet Home west of the Platte River. [5] [6]

A post office named Sweet Home was established in 1864, [3] and was the first town in Jackson Township. [7] With the establishment of Ravenwood, Missouri in the 1880s the hamlet diminished. The post office was closed in 1890. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Ramsey Place Name Files" . Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Centennial map of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1876". Library of Congress. Morehouse, Sisson & Co. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri - Volume 1". B.F. Bowen & Company. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
  4. ↑ Journal of History. 1921.
  5. ↑ Lloyd, James T. "Lloyd's official map of Missouri". Library of Congress. New York, Louisville, [and] London, J. T. Lloyd, 1861. Retrieved May 14, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Clark's New Sectional Map of Missouri, 1860". David Rumsey Map Collection. J.C. Clark & Co. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  7. ↑ https://nodaway.mogenweb.org/countyhist/bygonetowns.html
  8. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History.


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