Case, Warren County, Missouri
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YoSam.
N 38° 44.077 W 091° 22.444
15S E 641320 N 4288582
Another railroad town, was on the MKT Railroad, now the site is on Katy Trail State Park
Waymark Code: WM12GNM
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/25/2020
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County of site: Warren County
Location of site: MO-94 & Katy Trail milemarker 96.9
Town Founded: 1894
Town lost railroad and closed: 1986
The MKT (or Katy) Railroad ceased operation on this line in 1986. The town held on for a while, but no farmer needed the town to ship or receive goods, mail began being delivered from Hermann, not sure when the buildings were removed, and the field used for planting
Below is from Eugenia L. Harrison's, "Place Names Of Four River Counties In Eastern Missouri." an M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1943:
"A town and post office in the southern part of Bridgeport Township, on Loutre Slough, about a mile east of old Bridgeport. It is a railroad town, and was established about 1894, when the M.K. & T. Railroad was laid out by the county surveyor, Squire Morris. It was probably named for some stockholder in the railroad who did not live here. The post office at Case was started in October, 1893, is first listed in 1895, and has since continued. An earlier post office in approximately the same place, which disappears from the list just as Case begins to appear, was Bud (post office 1866-1893). The name Bud can be traced back as far as 1880, but its source is unknown. The place was previously known as Luppold's Landing, for Matthias Luppold, who settled there in 1868. He was a blacksmith and a native of Wittenburg, Germany, who came to America about 1854 and died in 1894. A nickname applied to the place in early days was Slingtown, apparently alluding to habits of heavy drinking there. The Americanism "sling" or "ginsling" was used for a drink made of spirits, especially gin, with water, sugar, and lemon, served either hot or cold, and very popular on the Western frontier, as is amply attested in the writings of Mark Twain. A similar humouous nickname that may have been used for Luppold's Landing is Gunboat, said to have been borrowed from the name of a saloon; but it seems more likely that Gunboat and Gunboat Landing were a little lower down the slough, at or near the present town of Gore (q.v.). The site of Case was also formerly known as Beaver Slide, obviously a humorus descriptive name. ~ Pike, ed. Coues, p. 366; County Atlas 1877, p. 5; History of St. Charles, pp. 1062-4; Benj. Frick; Dr. A.W. Ebeling; George Luppold; Mrs. George Luppold; F.W. Kehr; E.C. Kehr; A.W. Wehmeyer (letter)"