Whig Valley is a fertile valley generally between Maitland and Mound City, in northeastern Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Whig Valley was also the name of a small community once present there in the 19th Century.
Whig Valley was first settled in 1846 by Theodore Higley and gave the locality its name due to his admiration of Whig Party political leader Henry Clay. The majority of settlers in Whig Valley were from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Similarly, in nearby southwestern Nodaway County near Fairview settlers named their locale Whig Valley as well. During the Civil War many of the originally settlers left this region and northerners from Ohio came in.
A post office was established in 1861 and named Whig Valley in this area. Later a store was built in 1870, and the town was platted in 1876. But when Maitland was established in 1881, the town of Whig Valley dissipated and the post office closed that same year.
References
- "History of Holt County, Missouri". St. Joseph, Mo., Midland Printing Co., 1917. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Whig Valley
- ^ "History of Holt County, Missouri". St. Joseph, Mo., Midland Printing Co., 1917. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
- ^ "Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 18, 2024.
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