Editing New Bloomfield, Missouri (section)

==History==
In 1827, a 'Round Prairie Post Office' was opened northwest of New Bloomfield, near what became [[Guthrie, Missouri|Guthrie]] almost 50 years later, and near the southern border of a much larger historic Round Prairie Township (subdivided around 1890 to create what then became the northern portion of [[Guthrie Township, Callaway County, Missouri|Guthrie Township]]).<ref name="Callaway County 1984">Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society "A History of Callaway County, Missouri" Fulton MO: Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society (1984).</ref><ref name="Callaway Historical Society 1994">Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society: "Combined Atlases of Callaway County Missouri 1876-1897-1919". Mt Vernon IN: Windmill Publications (1994).</ref>

In 1836, a historic town of 'Bloomfield', next to or containing the Round Prairie Post Office, was first surveyed.<ref name="Callaway County 1984"/>

In 1841, the Round Prairie Post Office was shut down and moved about 1/2 mile southward, clearly into [[Cedar Township, Callaway County, Missouri|Cedar Township]], and was renamed 'New Bloomfield Post Office', around which today's town of New Bloomfield formed.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_callaway.html| title=Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate=7 September 2016| url-status=bot: unknown| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071020/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_callaway.html| archivedate=24 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=7 September 2016}}</ref>  The official establishment of the town of Guthrie as 'Bigbee' and a new Guthrie Post Office (closed in 1954) followed in 1872 and 1874. The [[Alton Railroad|Chicago & Alton Railroad]] went from the Missouri riverport at Cedar City, through Holts Summit, then New Bloomfield and Guthrie, then veered northeast toward Carrington, then Fulton, then McCredie, Auxvasse, and into Audrain County and the city of Mexico, and thereafter toward Illinois and Chicago to the east, or to Kansas City to the west. Connection to St Louis was made via locations across the Mississippi River in Illinois until the MKT railroad was built in the 1890s. A ferry boat connected the Cedar City railway station to Jefferson City until a bridge was built in 1896.<ref name="Callaway County 1984"/><ref name="Callaway Historical Society 1994"/>  The New Bloomfield railroad station was located in what is now the New Bloomfield City Park.  Details of relevant township boundary changes are given in the articles on both [[Round Prairie Township, Callaway County, Missouri|Round Prairie Township]] and [[Cedar Township, Callaway County, Missouri|Cedar Township]].