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Bass

Place Name:  Bass

Founded:        bef 1891

Origin:            Metheldred Bass


Bass, was located near what is now called Old Bass Road near Hwy 54.  In this location, there was a country store, Bass Mercantile, Co., established by the farmers in the community and named in honor of Mr. Metheldred Bass, a prominent farmer who owned the adjacent land. The store is now extinct. (E.L. Burch; J.E. Garman; Cited on Railroad Commission Map of Missouri, 1910) Source:Pace, Nadine. "Place Names In The Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1928.
  The town of Bass could still be found in the 1930 plat book of Cole County (see picture on left).

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