![]() Mellville A mill village, at what is now Qulin, on the Palmer R. ![]() The name was given for a family of loggers living there. v.) in a large Cypress brake, where logs for piling were shipped out on the Mo. (- Place Names.) Massey Switch During the 1880's, a logging camp was established 3-1/2 miles north of Harviell (q. Marshall, who was a grist saw mill man in the vicinity. (- Place Names.) Marshall A lost mill camp on the old Parker R. Weber's Thesis ( Commonwealth of Mo., 173). Charles Co., and the name of Maries County, originally marais for which see Mr. "Marais Croche" Crooked Swamp or Lake, from its shape, in St. It could be taken from the feminine name "Mary" or "Marie", but it is more probable that it is the Anglicized form of the French term "marais", meaning swamp. No one has been found who knows anything of the name. Parker, 1865, Campbell, 1873, and Rand, McNally give the name as Mariesville, and it appears to be near the site of Broseley (q. ![]() Apparently it was near the present location of Qulin (q. (- Place Names.) Maries The name is found on Mitchell's map, 1886. Maddox writes, by taking the first three letters of his name and adding the last two of Mr. The name is a coinage from the surnames of two men in the Poplar Bluff office of the railroad company: Maintenance of Way Clerk, T. A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets ![]()
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