Wardsville - Cole County Communities

Wardsville

Wardsville is situated at Sec. 7, Twp. 43 N, Range 11 West at the junction of M & B.

Mail via Jefferson City; incorporated 1965. (--Rand, McNally, 1974.)

Mr. Junius Ward owned the land on which the town was laid out and it was named in his honor. (E.L. Burch; J.E. Garman; Cited on Railroad Commissioner's Map of Missouri 1910). Source: Pace, Nadine. "Place Names In The Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1928.

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF COLE COUNTY

Wardsville,Wardsville, in Osage township, 7 miles south of Jefferson City, its shipping and banking point. Mail, daily. Population. 160.
Bode, Henry, carpenter.
Bode, Bernard, merchant.
Glover. W. S., Physician.
Ihler, Donald, merchant and saloon.
Laux, Frank, blacksmith.
Laux, Henry, blacksmith.
Plassmeyer, M. S., general merchant.
Schwaller, Jos., stock breeder.
Siebeneck, Kate, poultry breeder.
Singer, Frank N., carpenter.
Sommer, Herman, stock breeder.
St. Stanislaus Catholic church.
Tellman, Peter, blacksmith and farm implements.
Well, H. A., physician.
Wiegerson. Frank, stock breeder.
Wilbers, B. H., poultry breeder.

Source: Illustrated Sketch Book AND DIRECTORY OF JEFFERSON CITY AND COLE COUNTY
J. W. JOHNSTON. Editor.