Sereno 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 ...
located in
Bois Brule Township in
Perry County Perry County may refer to:
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,
Missouri
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, United States. Sereno is located approximately five miles northeast of
Perryville.
Etymology
The early settlers of Sereno named the community Serena, meaning “a clean, respectable place”. However, when establishing a post office they discovered a place by that name already existed in Missouri, so the name was changed to Sereno.
History
In 1884, Thomas Moore gave a small tract of his land along Chester Road to William Mattingly for the purpose of building a general store, which was soon followed by a grist mill. A post office operated from 1888 to 1905. The predominantly Catholic town established ''Our Lady of Victory Catholic parish'' in 1908.
[Archdiocese of St. Louis http://www.parishesonline.com/scripts/HostedSites/org.asp?p=1&ID=8624]
References
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Unincorporated communities in Perry County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri