Dittmer is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on Route 30 southwest of Cedar Hill.[2]
The community's namesake is William Dittmer, an early postmaster who established a post office called Dittmer's Store in 1870.[3][4] An 1891 railroad map calls the community "Dittmer's Store." It was officially named Dittmer in 1899.[5]
Today, Dittmer is home to the Vianney Renewal Center, a treatment center for Catholic clergy with sexual or other disorders.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Dittmer, Missouri". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.48 ISBN 0899332242
- ^ "Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 180.
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
- ^ For years he's lived with neighbors who are abusive priests; by Lilly Fowler, 12 January 2015 St Louis Post-Dispatch
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