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Union City, Missouri

Coordinates: 36°58′44″N 93°27′57″W / 36.97889°N 93.46583°W / 36.97889; -93.46583
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Union City is an unincorporated rural hamlet in northern Stone County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located approximately 3.5 miles south of Clever at the intersection of routes M and K. Possum Trot is about two miles to the east on route M.[2] There are only homes located there.

Union City was a Union Army camp during the Civil War. A small train station was built there (it still stands, but the old railroad itself was removed and converted to a road, Route K, during the Get Missouri Out Of The Mud movement of the 1950s.[citation needed]

The adjacent area to the east of Union City and south of Possum Trot is known as Union Ridge, and a church was built there in 1896. On the day of the church building dedication, several drunk, rowdy young men arrived at the outdoor dinner gathering. For reasons believed to involve a young lady, a knife fight broke out and a number of people were severely injured. As a result, area residents referred to the church as "the Bloody Ridge Baptist Church", a name that stuck for several generations.[3]

South of Union Ridge and east of Union City is Silver Lake, an impoundment that was dammed in 1865 by Davis Kimberling for the purpose of powering a feed and flour mill. It is now a recreational area.[3]

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Union City, Missouri
  2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 62 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ^ a b Jackson, Paul E., Sr. (1999) The family of William Andrew & Catherine Boyd Jackson/ focusing on the generations of Hugh T. and Mary A. Gold Jackson/ a history of southwest Missouri. Ballwin, MO: Jackson. ISBN B0006FDEFM

36°58′44″N 93°27′57″W / 36.97889°N 93.46583°W / 36.97889; -93.46583