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'''Sweet Home''' is an extinct hamlet in [[Nodaway County, Missouri|Nodaway County]], [[Missouri]], in the [[United States]].[{{cite web | url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/nodaway-county | title=Ramsey Place Name Files | accessdate= October 31, 2024}}] It was situated 12 miles east of [[Maryville, Missouri|Maryville]] and 2.5 miles east of the [[Platte River (Iowa and Missouri)|Platte River]].[{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4163n.la000404/?r=0.523,0.209,0.517,0.217,0|publisher=Morehouse, Sisson & Co.|title=Centennial map of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1876|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 15, 2025}}][{{cite web | url=https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mocohist/id/33290 | title=Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri - Volume 1 | publisher=B.F. Bowen & Company| accessdate= October 31, 2024}}][{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-cWAQAAIAAJ&dq=Sweet+Home,+Missouri&pg=PA305 |title=Journal of History |date=1921 |language=en}}] Other sources erroneously place Sweet Home west of the Platte River.[{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4160.cw0296300/?r=0.055,0.08,0.142,0.068,0|publisher=New York, Louisville, [and] London, J. T. Lloyd, 1861|last=Lloyd|first=James T.|title=Lloyd's official map of Missouri|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 14, 2025}}][{{cite web|url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~342484~90110620:Clarks-New-Sectional-Map-of-Missou?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort&qvq=w4s:/where%2FMissouri;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=4&trs=397|publisher=J.C. Clark & Co. |title=Clark’s New Sectional Map of Missouri, 1860|website=David Rumsey Map Collection|access-date=May 15, 2025}}][{{cite web|url=https://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/missouri/index2_1875-1885.htm|title=Map of the Track of the Barnard, Hackberry Ridge and Gentry County Tornadoes, Mo.|publisher=Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881|access-date=April 8, 2026}}] |
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'''Sweet Home''' is an extinct hamlet in [[Nodaway County, Missouri|Nodaway County]], [[Missouri]], in the [[United States]].[{{cite web | url=https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/nodaway-county | title=Ramsey Place Name Files | accessdate= October 31, 2024}}] It was situated 12 miles east of [[Maryville, Missouri|Maryville]] and 2.5 miles east of the [[Platte River (Iowa and Missouri)|Platte River]].[{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4163n.la000404/?r=0.523,0.209,0.517,0.217,0|publisher=Morehouse, Sisson & Co.|title=Centennial map of Nodaway County, Missouri, 1876|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 15, 2025}}][{{cite web | url=https://mdh.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/mocohist/id/33290 | title=Past and present of Nodaway County, Missouri - Volume 1 | publisher=B.F. Bowen & Company| accessdate= October 31, 2024}}][{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-cWAQAAIAAJ&dq=Sweet+Home,+Missouri&pg=PA305 |title=Journal of History |date=1921 |language=en}}][{{cite web|url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~3876~400066:Missouri-and-Arkansas-|publisher=Rand McNally and Company|title=Rand, McNally & Co.'s Missouri and Arkansas, 1878|website=David Rumsey Map Collection|access-date=Aoril 8, 2026}}] Other sources erroneously place Sweet Home west of the Platte River.[{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4160.cw0296300/?r=0.055,0.08,0.142,0.068,0|publisher=New York, Louisville, [and] London, J. T. Lloyd, 1861|last=Lloyd|first=James T.|title=Lloyd's official map of Missouri|website=Library of Congress|access-date=May 14, 2025}}][{{cite web|url=https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~342484~90110620:Clarks-New-Sectional-Map-of-Missou?sort=Pub_List_No_InitialSort&qvq=w4s:/where%2FMissouri;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=4&trs=397|publisher=J.C. Clark & Co. |title=Clark’s New Sectional Map of Missouri, 1860|website=David Rumsey Map Collection|access-date=May 15, 2025}}][{{cite web|url=https://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/missouri/index2_1875-1885.htm|title=Map of the Track of the Barnard, Hackberry Ridge and Gentry County Tornadoes, Mo.|publisher=Washington: Government Printing Office, 1881|access-date=April 8, 2026}}] |
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A post office named Sweet Home was established in 1864, and was the first town in [[Jackson Township, Nodaway County, Missouri | Jackson Township]].[https://nodaway.mogenweb.org/countyhist/bygonetowns.html] With the establishment of [[Ravenwood, Missouri]] in the 1880s the hamlet diminished. The post office was closed in 1890.[{{cite web |title=Post Offices |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Nodaway |access-date= |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History}}] |
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A post office named Sweet Home was established in 1864, and was the first town in [[Jackson Township, Nodaway County, Missouri | Jackson Township]].[https://nodaway.mogenweb.org/countyhist/bygonetowns.html] With the establishment of [[Ravenwood, Missouri]] in the 1880s the hamlet diminished. The post office was closed in 1890.[{{cite web |title=Post Offices |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Nodaway |access-date= |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History}}] |