Gad's Hill, Missouri
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| Gads Hill | |
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| — Unincorporated community — | |
 Gads Hill
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| Coordinates: 37°14′18″N 90°41′48″W / 37.23833°N 90.69667°WCoordinates: 37°14′18″N 90°41′48″W / 37.23833°N 90.69667°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Wayne |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
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| GNIS feature ID | 750014[1] |
Gad's Hill is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri is located between two towns in Missouri — Des Arc and Piedmont. Named for the country home of Charles Dickens,[2] it was established in 1872 by George W. Creath.[3]
At its small train station on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway line, the first train-robbery in the state occurred on January 31, 1874.[4] At 3:00 in the afternoon, the James-Younger gang boarded the train and proceeded to rob the passengers. While the exact amount was never certain, newspapers at the time estimated between $2,000 and $22,000 was stolen.[5] Now in Gads Hill, a bar is opened there called the Jesse James Saloon.
[edit] References
- ^ "Gads Hill". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:750014.
- ^ Goodspeed Publishing (1888). History of Southeast Missouri. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company. p. 460. ISBN 0-89308-431-X.
- ^ The State Historical Society of Missouri, David W. (January 1919). "How Missouri Streams, Counties and Towns Were Named". Missouri Historical Review (Vol. 13, No. 2) (Eaton).
- ^ Conard, Howard L. (1901). Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 2. St. Louis: Southern History Company. p. 544.
- ^ Beights, Ronald H. (June 2005). "Jesse James and the Gads Hill Train Holdup". Wild West Magazine (TheHistoryNet.com). Archived from the original on 2006-03-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20060317155048/http://www.historynet.com/we/blgadshill/. Retrieved 2006-03-27.
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