Cane Hill is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Cedar County
Cedar County may refer to:
* Cedar County, Iowa
* Cedar County, Missouri
* Cedar County, Nebraska
* Cedar County, Choctaw Nation
* Cedar County, Washington, a proposed county made up of part of King County
* Cedar County, Utah Territory, a fo ...
, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
History
A post office called Cane Hill was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1918. The community was named for the
canebrake
A canebrake or canebreak is a thicket of any of a variety of ''Arundinaria'' grasses: '' A. gigantea'', '' A. tecta'' and '' A. appalachiana''. As a bamboo, these giant grasses grow in thickets up to tall. ''A. gigantea'' is generally found in s ...
harvested near the town site.
References
Unincorporated communities in Cedar County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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