Two Mile Prairie, Missouri

Two Mile Prairie is an unincorporated area in northern Columbia Township, Boone County, Missouri, United States, northeast of Columbia. Its elevation is 879 feet (268 m), and it is located at coor dms|39|1|5|N|92|10|1|W|city (39.0180968, -92.1668479). [ [http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:759385 Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report] , Geographic Names Information System, 1989-06-01. Accessed 2008-01-24.]

It shares a name with Two Mile Prairie Elementary School in Columbia.

An 1882 book, "History of Boone County", [ [http://lccn.loc.gov/rc01001356 History of Boone County] ] offers the following description:

:"Some of the finest farms in the State of Missouri, or in the West, are to be found in the Columbia township. On them are to be found not only fertile fields but fruitful orchards, pleasant pastures, lovely lawns, and handsome, commodious and elegant residences. Some of the farmhouses in the township present the appearance of the mansion of an English landlord, and the estates are in the highest state of cultivation and improvement. The farms on Two-mile prairie have an extended reputation, but a majority of the timber farms produce on an average fully as well, albeit a great deal of the soil in the timber is so poor as to be practically worthless for the purposes of ordinary cultivation." [ [http://books.google.com/books?ei=T8TAR9XEHI7AiQHesay1CA&id=_PwBAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22history+of+boone+county%22&q=%22have+an+extended+reputation%22&pgis=1#search History of Boone County, page 734] ]

References

Further reading

*"Area farmers face price squeeze: Grain elevators are filling up quickly." Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) (Oct 11, 2007): NA. General OneFile. Gale. TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (CELPLO). 23 Feb. 2008 . Gale Document Number:CJ169738534 "Brothers Frank and John Glenn yesterday took advantage of good weather to reap the annual soybean harvest on their family farm in the Two Mile Prairie area northeast of Columbia."
*"Planners settle on Ashland site for sewage plant." Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO) (August 15, 2007): NA. General OneFile. Gale. TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (CELPLO). 23 Feb. 2008 . Gale Document Number:CJ167634040 "...the Two Mile Prairie task force believes the best location for the new [wastewater treatment] plant is the current Ashland Wastewater Treatment Plant.'

External links

* [http://www.columbia.k12.mo.us/tmp/ Two Mile Prairie Elementary School]