Gads Hill, Missouri

Gads Hill
Unincorporated community
Gads Hill Location within the state of Missouri
Coordinates: 37°14′18″N 90°41′48″W / 37.23833°N 90.69667°WCoordinates: 37°14′18″N 90°41′48″W / 37.23833°N 90.69667°W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	Wayne
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes	63957
GNIS feature ID	750014[1]

Gads Hill is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri is located between two towns in Missouri — Des Arc and Piedmont. Named for the country home of Charles Dickens,^[2] it was established in 1872 by George W. Creath.^[3] The town's name was changed to Zeitonia in 1887, but reverted to Gads Hill in 1906.

At its small train station on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway line, the first train-robbery in the state occurred on January 31, 1874.^[4] At 3:00 in the afternoon, the James-Younger gang boarded the train and proceeded to rob the passengers. While the exact amount was never certain, newspapers at the time estimated between $2,000 and $22,000 was stolen.^[5]

References

1. "Gads Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
2. Goodspeed Publishing (1888). History of Southeast Missouri. Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Company. p. 460. ISBN 0-89308-431-X.
3. The State Historical Society of Missouri, David W. (January 1919). "How Missouri Streams, Counties and Towns Were Named". Missouri Historical Review (Vol. 13, No. 2). Eaton.
4. Conard, Howard L. (1901). Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri, Vol. 2. St. Louis: Southern History Company. p. 544.
5. Beights, Ronald H. (June 2005). "Jesse James and the Gads Hill Train Holdup". Wild West Magazine. TheHistoryNet.com. Archived from the original on 2006-03-17. Retrieved 2006-03-27.