264 HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOUKI to the importance of the town. The court bouse occupies a commanding site in the center of the public square. It was erected in 1908, and is a well-constructed and commodious building. The usual church organizations are foimd, most of which have good buildings. The largest and most costly church edifice is that of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, recently erected at a cost of $40,000. Jackson has a good system of public schools with a well-organized high school. There are two weekly newspapers. The Missouri Cash- book and The Volkesfreund, which is a Ger- man paper. Besides the branch of the Iron Moimtain the town is situated on the Cape Girardeau and Chester Railroad, which was constructed in 1904, from Cape Girardeau to Chester. There is a "fine rock road from Jack- son to Cape Girardeau. BuRFOBDVILLE Burfordville, in Cape Girardeau coimty, was known for a good many years as Bol- linger's Mill. It is situated on Whitewater river at the place where Major George Fred- erick Bollinger made a settlement about the year 1800 and where he for many years oper- ated a mill. Other families besides the Bol- linger family, who lived in the vicinity in the early times, were the Daughertys and Frisselles. It was incorporated as a town in ' the year 1900 and the first mayor was F. B. Meyer. The town now has four general stores and a furniture making establishment and a large flour mill. Its population is 114. Appleton Appleton, a village on Apple Creek, in Cape Girardeau county was founded in 1824. The first residents seem to have been Jolm McClain and John Schlotz. Among the early merchants were Kimmel and Taylor, George Clodfelter and W. H. McClain. The first mill was built by Alfred McClain. Pocahontas and Oak Ridge Pocahontas was first settled in ISoG and organized as a village in 1861. Oak Ridge, in Apple Creek township, ten miles northwest of Jackson, was settled about 1852. It is now a flourishing town with a population of 256. It is surrounded by a good farming community, and has a large flouring mill. It supports a good public school and there are several stores and other business establishments. The Bank of Oak Ridge was organized in 1904, and has a cap- ital stock of $10,000.
