Braggadocio, Missouri

Braggadocio is an unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located 8 miles (13 km) west of Caruthersville on Missouri Route J and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Steele on Route Z.[2]

History

Braggadocio was founded circa 1847.[3] A post office called Braggadocio has been in operation since 1881.[4] Possibly the community was named because a large share of the early settlers were braggarts,[5] or after the knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.[3] Braggadocio has been noted for its unusual place name.[6]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Braggadocio
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 71, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 40.
  4. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 29 November 2016.
  5. "Pemiscot County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  6. "The Oddest Named Town in Every State". The Active Times. April 19, 2018. Retrieved 3 July 2019.


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