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Cole Camp is a small city in Benton County, Missouri, United States.The population was 1,121 at the 2010 census. The town is known for the annual street fair in September. . It also hosts a Maifest in May, an Oktoberfest in October, and a Christbaumfest in late November; all highlight the town's German herita
Roughly consists of the 100 blocks of E and W Main St., most of Maple St.,105 E. Butterfield,106 N Olive, 107 N Boonville, Cole Camp, Missouri Coordinates 38°27′35″N 93°14′14″W / 38.45972°N 93.23722°W / 38.45972; -93
Cole Township was formed in February 1835, taking its name from Captain Stephen Cole, an Indian fighter and pioneer settler. [2] Several streams, including Big Buffalo Creek, Byler Branch, Cole Camp Creek, Duran Creek, Feaster Branch, Lemon Branch, Ross Creek run through this township.
Butterfield Overland Mail (officially Overland Mail Company) [1] was a stagecoach service in the United States operating from 1858 to 1861. It carried passengers and U.S. Mail from two eastern termini, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California.
Benjamin Franklin (1847) 1st Postmaster, statesman, scientist [29] [57] Robert Fulton on a 1965 stamp. Elizabeth Freake (1998) Subject of portrait by Freake Limner [58] Mary Freake (1998) Subject of portrait by Freake Limner [58] John C. Fremont (1898) Explorer, US Senator; Arthur Burdett Frost (2001) Illustrator [5] Robert Frost (1974) Poet
The Battle of Cole Camp was a skirmish of the American Civil War, occurring on June 19, 1861, in Benton County, Missouri. The Union loss provided an open path for the fleeing governor and Missouri State Guard away from Lyon's force in Boonville .
Camp Connell, California – John F. Connell (landowner and first postmaster) Camp Douglas, Wisconsin – James Douglas (established a camp along the Milwaukee Road to provide wood for the locomotives) Camp Pardee, California – George Pardee (governor of California) Camp Richardson, California – Alonzo L. Richardson (first postmaster)
George Cliff King, lately Postmaster of Calgary, Dominion of Canada. John Henry King, President of the Royal Society of St. George, State of New South Wales. William Allan McKnight, Sub-Office Postmaster, Winnipeg, Dominion of Canada. For successfully withstanding, at great personal risk, the attack of armed bandits on Post Office property.