Hiram is an
unincorporated community
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in eastern
Wayne County,
Missouri
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, United States. It is located on
Missouri Route C
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, between
Clubb to the northwest and
Lowndes to the southeast, approximately twenty miles southwest of
Marble Hill. The community is located on
McCabe Creek, just north of that steam's confluence with
Bear Creek.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 1998, first edition, p. 57, ]
A post office called Hiram was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1994. The community was named after Hiram Holliday, a
businessman
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in the local lumber industry at
Greenville.
Hiram was approximately midway on Holiday's 17 mile
railroad spur running from
Greenville (the county seat) to
Cascade
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located in the northeast corner of the county. This spur transported most all of the virgin pine timber of the northeast portion of Wayne County between 1880 and 1910.
References
Unincorporated communities in Wayne County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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