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Braggadocio, Missouri
Braggadocio is an unincorporated community in Pemiscot County, Missouri, United States. It is located 8 miles (13 km) west of Caruthersville on Missouri Route J and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) north of Steele on Route Z.

History

Braggadocio was founded circa 1847. A post office called Braggadocio has been in operation since 1881. Possibly the community was named because a large share of the early settlers were braggarts, or after the knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene. Braggadocio has been noted for its unusual place name.

In 1927, an African-American man named Will Sherod was lynched in Braggadocio.

On April 2, 2006, an F3 tornado hit the town, causing two deaths, and on December 10, 2021, an EF4 tornado struck the town, causing one death.

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Braggadocio
  2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 71, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ^ Earngey, Bill (1995). Missouri Roadsides: The Traveler's Companion. University of Missouri Press. p. 40.
  4. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  5. ^ "Pemiscot County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  6. ^ "The Oddest Named Town in Every State". The Active Times. April 19, 2018. Retrieved July 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "The Law's Too Slow". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. January 1928. p. 19.
  8. ^ "The Jim Crow Era: A Solemn Roll Call Of Those Brutally Murdered". PoliticsNY. Retrieved April 20, 2021.

36°10′31″N 89°49′46″W / 36.17528°N 89.82944°W / 36.17528; -89.82944


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