Editing Fortescue, Missouri (section)

==History==
[[File:HoltCountyHistoricalSocietyFortescueMO.jpg|175px|left|thumb|Holt County Historical Society park]]
Fortescue was founded in 1886<ref name="NW">{{cite book |last= Williams|first= Walter|date= 1915|title= A History of Northwest Missouri Volume I|publisher= The Lewis Publishing Company|page= 541}}</ref> and had its [[plat]] filed on August 8, 1890.<ref name="GH">{{cite book | title=Gone home: Directory of the deceased and items of history of Holt County, Missouri, 1837-1981 | publisher=Holt County Missouri Historical Society | author=Derr, Eileen | year=1981}}</ref> An early railroad promoter named Fortesque gave the community the maiden name of his mother.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |title=Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=October 8, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070426/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 }}</ref>  A post office called Fortescue was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1973.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Holt | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=October 8, 2016}}</ref> Its location was at the juncture of the [[Burlington Missouri River Railroad]] and [[Big Tarkio Creek]] (now called Old Channel Tarkio Creek) and was platted as four blocks.<ref name="Holt1898">{{cite web|url=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/2018|title=Standard atlas of Holt County, Missouri, 1898|publisher=Chicago, Ill: Geo. A. Ogle & Co.|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref>