Dittmer, Missouri

Dittmer is an unincorporated community in western Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on Route 30 southwest of Cedar Hill.[2]

The community's namesake is William Dittmer, an early postmaster who established a post office called Dittmer's Store in 1870.[3][4] An 1891 railroad map calls the community "Dittmer's Store." It was officially named Dittmer in 1899.[5]

Today, Dittmer is home to the Vianney Renewal Center, a treatment center for Catholic clergy with sexual or other disorders.[6]

References
  1. "Dittmer, Missouri". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.48 ISBN 0899332242
  3. "Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 180.
  5. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  6. For years he's lived with neighbors who are abusive priests; by Lilly Fowler, 12 January 2015 St Louis Post-Dispatch

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