Some towns, like Tuque, Abbatis, Camp Branch, and Brandts Spring, never made it much past that point/ Many find their beginning when one enterprising merchant opens his mercantile and an application for a post office is made. "Many of Warren County's lost and forgotten communities can only be found in the chronicles of the post office. Belle Gerdemann William Van Studdiford Mrs. It has been out of existence since about 1876." ~ Mrs. "Camp Branch Church: A Northern Methodist Church in the central-west part of Elkhorn Township. It is named either for Camp Branch or for Camp Branch Church." ~ Mrs. "Camp Branch Cemetery: In the central-west part of Elkhorn Township, four miles east of Jonesburg on Highway 40. 18, 1914,page 2 William Van Studdiford Mrs. The post office was doubtless named for the creek (Camp Branch)." ~ Goodwin Bryan & Rose, page 222 County Atlas 1877, page 9 History of ST. Indians were troublesome here at that time. Lemuel (or Samuel) Price, who came to Missouri from North Carolina in 1814 and lived in a fort until 1815, was the first settler in this vicinity. "A post office in 1867 in the central-west part of Elkhorn Township near Montgomery County on the Boone's Lick Road. of Truck Stop on MO-AĪll that remain is a DAR marker for the tavern and stage coach stop on the old Boone's Lick Trail, and the cemetery east and up hill from the town site. of South Service Rd., (Old US-40), and a ½ mile W. Location of site: on Camp Brach Creek, about 300 yards S.
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