Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1881
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Title Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1881 Source Type Web Site URL http://sites.rootsweb.com/~mostclai/Location/LocationsAppletonCity.htm Source ID S752 Text Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1881:
Appleton City – This incorporated city of the fourth class was founded in 1871, and according to the census of 1880 has a population of 1,114. It is a station on the M.K. & T. Ry. (Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway), in Appleton City, St. Clair County, twenty-five north west of Osceola (county seat court house), sixty south west of Sedalia and 249 from St. Louis. A large business is carried on with the surrounding country, this being the shipping point for a large area, the chief products exported being corn, wheat, flax and castor beans. The noteworthy features here are, two public schools, employing six teachers, and having an attendance of 348 pupils, a public library of 1,600 volumes, an opera house seating 500, two weekly newspapers, a bank and five churches of the following denominations: Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Christian and Lutheran. Of hotels, the Prier House, Capt. J.E. James, propr. is the most prominent and is largely patronized by the traveling public. Improved land averages $20 per acre, unimproved $10, while farms can be rented at a fair rate. Daily stages to Butler and Osceola. Tel., W.U.; Ex., Adams. Mail, daily. H.W.
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