18/09/2019
Barkersville
This village was settled in 1867. It was located on the northeast quarter of Sec. 23, Twp. 44 N, R. 10 W. Population 75. It was on the Missouri River, opposite to Osage City (Cole Co.) twenty-three miles south of Fulton, and nine miles east of Jefferson City; it had a steam saw and grist mill, a Methodist Church and district school, C. W. Ball, portable saw mill; E. M. Bryson, physician; Peter Cristy, carpenter; R. H. Crow & Co., general store; J**s Kate Fuls, milliner. With the floods of the late 1880’s and decline of steamboat traffic, the population of the village began to decline and with the completion of the KATY Railroad in 1895, most of the balance of the population left for the communities of Tebbetts and Wainwright which were situated along the railroad. The destruction of Barkersville was completed with the flood of 1903 and no traces of Barkersville now remain in that location. (–Callaway Co., 169; Campbell’s Gaz. of Mo., 98 N.)
