Editing Bevier, Missouri (section)

==History==
Bevier was laid out and [[plat]]ted in 1858 along a new railroad line.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&pg=PA17 | title=Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Earngey, Bill | year=1995 | pages=17| isbn=9780826210210 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_macon.html  | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070636/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_macon.html | archivedate = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Macon County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate= October 30, 2016}}</ref> The community was named for Kentucky native [[Robert Bevier]], who afterward became a colonel in the [[Confederate States Army|Confederate army]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n88 191]}}</ref> A post office called Bevier has been in operation since 1858.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Macon | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=30 October 2016}}</ref>

Coal was discovered in Bevier in 1860, and coal mining was an important part of the town economy well into the 20th century. Bevier was incorporated as a village on September 5, 1881, and reorganized as a city on March 16, 1889.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/96306895/ |title=MU Student Compiles Interesting Notes On Bevier's Early History |date=March 12, 1954 |work=Macon [Missouri] Chronicle-Herald |accessdate=February 17, 2017 |page=5}}</ref>