Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.
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
^
"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 . {{
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^ 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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