Hines Landing, Missouri

Hines Landing is an unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community has the name of the local Hines family.[2] Morton J. Hines was authorized to operate a ferry on the Mississippi River at this point in the 1860s.[3]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hines Landing, Missouri
  2. "Cape Girardeau County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. Missouri (1861). Acts of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri. Isaac N. Henry. p. 551.


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