New Boston, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}}

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New Boston is an unincorporated community in eastern Linn County, Missouri, United States.{{GNIS|723188}} It is located on Missouri Route 129 approximately {{convert|16|miles|spell=in}} northeast of Brookfield. Mussel Fork flows past {{convert|1|mile|spell=in}} to the east in adjacent Macon County.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, pp. 22-3, {{isbn|0899332242}}

New Boston was laid out in 1846, and named after Boston, Massachusetts.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YbyjamQWtScC&pg=PA26 | title=Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names | publisher=University of Missouri Press | author=Ramsay, Robert L. | year=1952 | pages=26| isbn=9780826205865 }} A post office called New Boston has been in operation since 1872.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Linn | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=29 October 2016}}{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_linn.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070628/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_linn.html | archivedate=June 24, 2016 | url-status=dead | title=Linn County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | accessdate=October 29, 2016 }}