Editing Old Appleton, Missouri (section)

==Name==
The first settlement was made at Old Appleton in 1824.<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/n38 270]}}</ref>

The community of Old Appleton was originally known as Apple Creek, named after the stream [[Apple Creek (Mississippi River)|Apple Creek]] on which the village is located. By the 1870s the village had become known as Appleton. In 1918, the word "Old" was incorporated into the name to eliminate confusion with [[Appleton City, Missouri|Appleton City]] in St. Clair County, Missouri.<ref>The State Historical Society of Missouri: Cape Girardeau Place Names http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_cape_girardeau.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331203339/http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_cape_girardeau.html |date=March 31, 2016 }}</ref>