Editing Cole Camp, Missouri (section)

==History==
Cole Camp was laid out in 1857.<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/n20 209]}}</ref> It became a Flag Stop on the [[Butterfield Overland Mail]] route that next year. Tipton was an eastern terminus of the  when it was launched in 1858. The route was connected to [[St. Louis]] by the [[Pacific Railroad]]. The Butterfield Overland Mail Route ran in the 1858-1861 Period before the [[American Civil War]].  The first postmaster of Cole Camp was Ezekiel Williams, Sr., appointed February 26, 1839.<ref>The National Archives, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Washington, 1973, National Archives Microfilm Publications, Microfilm Publication M841. Record of Appointment of Postmaster, 1832-September 30, 1971, Roll 70, Missouri, Adair - Clay Counties. Volume 12B, ca. 1832-44. p. 169, available at ancestry.com</ref> The city most likely was named after pioneer Captain Stephen Cole.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_benton.html |title=Benton County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=2 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071139/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_benton.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref>
Cole Camp was the site of a skirmish early in the [[American Civil War]], when the local pro-Union Home Guard company was attacked by a [[Missouri State Guard]] force on June 19, 1861. At the [[Battle of Cole Camp (1861)|Battle of Cole Camp]], the Home Guard were defeated with a loss of 35 men killed or wounded.

The [[Central Cole Camp Historic District]] and [[Augustus Sander House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>