Kerrigan is a ghost town in southwest
Wayne County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
History
The community was on a ridge approximately 200 feet above the east bank of the
Black River at the location called Granite Bend.
Granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
was quarried at the site and transported by the railroad which followed the east bank of the river.
[
Kerrigan was laid out in 1886 when the railroad was extended to that point.]
References
Ghost towns in Missouri
Former populated places in Wayne County, Missouri
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