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History · Virgil Township

22% of Virgil Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Virgil Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Virgil Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Virgil Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Virgil Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Virgil City
1868–1905
Greene Springs
1887–1901
Pashaw
1888–1905
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Greene SpringsPashaw
Gone or out of use
Culbertson MinemineGlennwood SchoolschoolGreen Springs SchoolschoolKeck SchoolschoolOak Grove SchoolschoolPleasant Valley SchoolschoolVirgil City SchoolschoolWillow Grove Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Virgil Township
RobinsonVirgil CityWarkins

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Virgil Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Virgil Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Virgil Township is a township in Vernon County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Virgil Township takes its name from the community of Virgil City, Missouri.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 443 to 490 (+11%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Virgil Township, 1868 to 1905

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868Post officeThe Virgil City post office opens
  3. 1887Post officeThe Greene Springs post office opens
  4. 1888Post officeThe Pashaw post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Greene Springs post office closes
  7. 1905Post officeThe Virgil City post office closes
  8. 1905Post officeThe Pashaw post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Virgil Township

Nobody well known was born in Virgil Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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John HustonAmerican film director, screenwriter, and actor · b. 1906
Eva BowringAmerican politician · b. 1892
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C. Jay CoxAmerican screenwriter and director · b. 1962
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Forrest DeBernardiAmerican basketball player · b. 1899
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Eugene MacCownAmerican painter, pianist, writer and translator · b. 1898
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Floyd WooldridgeBaseball player · b. 1928
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Badger TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townClear Creek TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMontevallo TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townDover TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.