Editing East Prairie, Missouri (section)

==History==
A post office called East Prairie has been in operation since 1872.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Mississippi |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |access-date=6 November 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107155811/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Mississippi |archive-date=7 November 2016 }}</ref> The community took its name from a [[prairie]] of the same near the original town site.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_mississippi.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071928/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_mississippi.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Mississippi County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= November 6, 2016}}</ref> The current town, which lies about a mile south of the original post office site, was established in 1883 as a stop along the [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway]] ("Cotton Belt"), and was originally known as "Hibbard". The East Prairie postmaster, S.P. Martin, moved the post office to the new town site. By 1900, the city's name had been changed from "Hibbard" to "East Prairie".<ref>Bill Earngey, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=xcxWsmxRzVEC&dq= Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion]'' (University of Missouri Press, 1995), pp. 79-80.</ref>

[[Hess Archeological Site]], [[Hoecake Village Archeological Site]], and [[Mueller Archeological Site]], some of which contain Native American [[tumulus|burial mounds]], are located near East Prairie and are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>