Alliance is an unincorporated community in the northwestern part of Whitewater Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States.[1]
Alliance, Missouri | |
|---|---|
 Location of Bollinger County, Missouri | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Bollinger |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| Area code | 573 |
The community was named after the organization Farmer's Alliance, an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers which had been organized in Illinois in 1880. Farmer's Alliance was a strong and flourishing organization in Alliance at that time. Alliance is also called Jugtown because of the pottery that was manufactured from the clay found there.[2] A post office was established there in 1889 and was in operation until 1953.[3]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Alliance, Missouri
- ^ State Historical Society of Missouri: Bollinger County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_bollinger.html Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Post Offices in Bollinger County, MO "Bollinger". Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved December 8, 2013.