Bowmansville, Missouri

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Bowmansville was an unincorporated community, albeit inhabited by only one family, in Johnson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

Bowmansville was located on S Division off Missouri Route 13 approximately three miles south of Warrensburg. Fletcher Creek flows past about one-half mile to the south.[2] The area currently consists of less than a dozen houses, a daycare, and a church, all now within the Warrensburg zip code.[3]

History[]

The community was first settled by a German Baptist congregation in 1880, including a deacon named John Bowman.[4]

J. B. Bowman was a local merchant who insisted that his group of businesses be called "Bowmansville".[5] In 1916, he attempted to get Bowmansville to appear on maps; at that time it consisted of a store, a blacksmith and wagon shop, and a single residence.[6] Mr. Bowman ran the store, blacksmith shop, and a mill in 1927.[7] A local 1929 report on area businesses listed Bowmansville as having a single merchant.[8]

In 1918, the History of Johnson County Missouri said "the store and the shop constitute Bowmansville's principal and only business establishments and there is probably not another town in Missouri where all the citizens are congenial members of one family, all cooperating as harmoniously as do the citizens of this little town." The book also notes the residents of Johnson County call the "little town" Bowmansville.[9]

In 1955, USGS maps began to list Bowmansville.[2]

The blacksmith shop was still present in 1968.[4]

References[]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bowmansville, Missouri
  2. ^ a b Cornelia, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1955 (1974 rev.)
  3. ^ Zip Codes in Johnson County, Missouri, ZipDataMaps, Retrieved June 9, 2021
  4. ^ a b "SHOW ME - Johnson County - Western Missouri History: Bowmansville, Missouri (Warrensburg) Bowman's Grocery and Gas". SHOW ME - Johnson County - Western Missouri History. 2016-12-19. Retrieved 2021-06-08.
  5. ^ "Johnson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Wants on the Map". The Kansas City Times. September 9, 1916. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  7. ^ The Clinton Eye. November 25, 1927 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/78938177/j-w-bowman/. Retrieved 4 June 2021. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ^ "Are 352 Merchants in Johnson County". The Warrensburg Standard-Herald. November 8, 1929. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  9. ^ Cockrell, Ewing. History of Johnson County, Missouri, Volume 2, p. 588-89 (1918)

Coordinates: 38°42′33″N 93°44′02″W / 38.7091793°N 93.7338269°W / 38.7091793; -93.7338269


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