Saint Annie, Missouri

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Saint Annie, Missouri
Unincorporated community
Saint Annie is located in Missouri
Saint Annie
Saint Annie
Coordinates: 37°34′19″N 92°16′27″W / 37.57194°N 92.27417°W / 37.57194; -92.27417Coordinates: 37°34′19″N 92°16′27″W / 37.57194°N 92.27417°W / 37.57194; -92.27417
CountryUnited States
StateMissouri
CountyLaclede
Elevation
[1]
1,309 ft (399 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)417
GNIS feature ID740600[1]

Saint Annie was an unincorporated community in northeast Laclede County, Missouri, United States. The community was on Missouri Route U about one mile west of the Laclede-Texas county line approximately five miles north of Lynchburg. The community of Winnipeg is about two miles to the northwest.[2][1]

History[]

A post office called Saint Annie was established in 1867 with George Hume as postmaster. It is suggested that it was named after Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna by Missouri Mexican veterans.[3]

By the 1890s the Saint Annie community had both a school and a church. The Saint Annie Baptist Church was organized in 1891 with T. H. Bollenger as the first pastor. The Saint Annie schoolhouse was about a mile distant from the church and was being used to educate children by at least 1893 with George Lane, Sr. as the teacher.[4]

A neighboring post office called Bend, located along the Texas and Laclede county line, was discontinued in March of 1886 and merged into the Saint Annie Post Office of which Christopher Myers was then postmaster. In 1895 the position of postmaster of Saint Annie moved from Christopher Myers to Ben Crismon who owned the farm adjoining the farms of former Bend post masters Hiram King and Samuel Bradford.[5] For the final 36 years of the existence of the Saint Annie Post office it was located in the home of Ben Crismon about six miles east of Nebo. The Crismon farm was half way between the post office at Plato and the post office at Cookville along the route on Roubidoux Creek. The Plato and Cookville offices were about six miles in either direction.[6] The Saint Annie post office was discontinued on July 15, 1930 and sent to Cookville.[7]

In 1930 the Gulf Oil Company was building a pumping station for a new pipeline near the Crismon farm on what is now U Highway in Laclede County. The community that developed at the pump station which included several homes, a store, and the school known as Blackbird School was known as Gulf City and should not be confused with Saint Annie. Both the Saint Annie church and school were on land in Pulaski County that was taken by the government to form Fort Leonard Wood. The Saint Annie cemetery was moved by the United States Army to the Bloodland Cemetery on Fort Leonard Wood.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Saint Annie, Missouri
  2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 54 ISBN 0899332242
  3. ^ Pulaski County’s Historic Place Names, Wilber, 1997, p. 10
  4. ^ Forty ‘Leven Stories, York, 1975, p. 115
  5. ^ National Archives Records Administration, U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971 Missouri: St. Francois - Wright, p. 379
  6. ^ Post Office Department topographer’s office form, May 27, 1895
  7. ^ National Archives Records Administration, U.S., Appointments of U. S. Postmasters, 1832-1971: St. Francis - Wright, p. 387
  8. ^ Find a Grave


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