Hackney 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 northwest
Greene County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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. The community was a mill site on the north bank of a meander in the
Little Sac River. The old iron Hackney Mill Bridge directly south of the community was constructed in 1895-96 and was replaced in 1996.
History
A post office called Hackney was established in 1889, and remained in operation until 1905. The community was named after the proprietor of a local
mill
Mill may refer to:
Science and technology
* Factory
* Mill (grinding)
* Milling (machining)
* Millwork
* Paper mill
* Steel mill, a factory for the manufacture of steel
* Sugarcane mill
* Textile mill
* List of types of mill
* Mill, the arithmetic ...
.
References
Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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