Editing Bloomfield, Missouri (section)

==History==
[[File:Stars and Stripes Museum.JPG|thumb|The Stars and Stripes Museum located at Bloomfield, Missouri,]]
The first permanent settlement at Bloomfield was made in 1824 at the site of a previous Native American community.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_stoddard.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071913/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_stoddard.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Stoddard County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= December 26, 2016}}</ref> Bloomfield was [[plat]]ted in 1835.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&pg=PA18 | title=Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Earngey, Bill | year=1995 | pages=18| isbn=9780826210210 }}</ref> The community was named from the wildflowers in the vicinity.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RfAuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366 | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1918 | pages=366}}</ref> A post office called Bloomfield has been in operation since 1836.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Stoddard | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=26 December 2016}}</ref>

The [[Stoddard County Courthouse]] was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>