Paultown (also known as Paulville) 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 eastern
Adair County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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. The community was approximately one mile northeast of
Brashear and the Paultown Cemetery is about one-half mile to the east above
Big Deer Branch.
History
Paultown (Paulville) was
plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in the 1850s by Walker Paul, and named for him. A post office called Paulville was established in 1857, and remained in operation until 1873.
References
Unincorporated communities in Adair County, Missouri
1857 establishments in Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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