Brazito - Cole County Communities

BRAZITO

Brazito is west of Osage Bluff. (--Sec. Map of Mo., 1894, Rand, McNally.) It is 15 miles southwest of Jefferson City, and had 1 schoolhouse and a store. (--Campbell's Gazetteer of Mo., 1874, p. 167.) It is situated at Sec. 25, Twp. 43 N, Range 13 West on Highway 54. Mail via Jefferson City. (--Rand, McNally, 1974.).

Brazito was founded in 1850. Soldiers of Cole County, returning from the Mexican War, named it for Brazito, New Mexico. (O.L. Moore; Cited on Railroad Commissioner's Map of Missouri, 1910) "Place Names In The Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1928.