Lowndes is an

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in eastern Wayne County,

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, United States. It is located approximately twenty miles southwest of Marble Hill, along

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. Bear Creek flows past the north side of the community and Barnes Creek is just east of the community.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 57, A post office called Lowndes has been in operation since 1840. The community has the name of Lowndes Henry Davis, a Missouri congressman.

Notable person

* Leo Goodwin, Sr., founder of

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, was born here in 1886.

References

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