Alliance, Missouri

Alliance, Missouri
unincorporated community
Location of Bollinger County, Missouri
Location of Bollinger County, Missouri
CountryUnited States
StateMissouri
CountyBollinger
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code573

Alliance is an unincorporated community in the northwestern part of Whitewater Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.[1]

The community was named after the organization Farmer's Alliance, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers which had been organized in Illinois in 1880. Farmer's Alliance was a strong and flourishing organization in Alliance at that time. Alliance is also called Jugtown because of the pottery that was manufactured from the clay found there.[2] A post office was established there in 1889 and was in operation until 1953.[3]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alliance, Missouri
  2. ^ State Historical Society of Missouri: Bollinger County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_bollinger.html Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Post Offices in Bollinger County, MO "Bollinger". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 8, 2013.

37°33′44″N 89°59′48″W / 37.56222°N 89.99667°W / 37.56222; -89.99667