County of town: Warren County
Location of town: MO-94 & Bluff Rd, & Katy Trail, Warren County
County is eastern-central in Missouri
Post Office Location Bluff Rd. & MO-94, Dutzow
Elevation: 495 feet (151 meters)
Population: under 50
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(ORIGINAL) DUTZOWFounded by Johann Wilhelm Bock. He named this village after his estate in Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany.
1832 - A landholding company, Frederick Rathje & Co., purchased 252.79 acres of land in the original Stephen Jackson Survey #1769. One hundred sixty-eight lots were platted. This land purchase was made for the members of what was known as the Berlin Society. After settling his affairs in Germany, Bock arrived in Dutzow at a later date.
1834 - He built a brick house on a site containing several springs, a stone house, a mill and a distillery. Fond of entertaining, Bock invited the most elite of the immigrants to his home.
1835 - Bock began to have financial problems resulting in the sale of his property to pay off debts.
1869 - A post office was established with Peter Quickert as postmaster.
1893 - Railroad services became available. Businesses and residences were constructed nearer to the railroad.
Bock's dream of creating a 'pure German Village' never materialized, but German culture and heritage flourished. ~ Boone-Duden Historical Society
"Dutzow: A town on the M.K. & T. Railroad in the southeast part of Charrette Township. It was laid out in 1835 by William Bock and has had a post office at least since 1876. Father Dames suggests that the early settlement here was named Dutzow for Gottfried Duden's native town in Pomerania, Germany, and offers as his authority, a Mr. Kenkel, of St. Louis, who gave this information to him at Washington, Missouri, in 1923. No such place appears on the German Map, at least today. The name may have been personal in origin." ~ Warrenton Banner, December 188, 1914
"Dutzow, 21 miles southeast of Warrenton, had 1 church, Catholic, 1 store, 1 blacksmith shop and wagon shop, and a public school. Population (1874) 72.
It is situated on Sec. 35, Twp. 45 N, R. 1 W on TT west of St. Charles County line." ~ New Atlas of Missouri, 1874, Campbell, p. 627.
"Prof. Frederick Reitz was principal of the school; Martin Hebelman was a dealer in merchandise and was postmaster; Rev. Father John Bestens was parish priest of the Catholic Church." ~ History of Warren County, pp. 1032, 1039
"It is four miles southeast of Warrenton." ~ The State of Missouri in 1904, Williams, p. 533.