Gobler, Missouri

Gobler (/ˈɡɒblər/ GOB-lər) is an unincorporated community on the border between Dunklin and Pemiscot Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is located nineteen miles west-southwest of Caruthersville.

It still has a post office open two hours a day, six days a week.[1] Until a devastating fire in 1956, Gobler was the home of the Gobler Mercantile Company, a large general store established in 1937 that served the surrounding farming population.[2]

The community is in the Delta C-7 consolidated school district headquartered six miles away at Deering, Missouri. Until 1963, Gobler was the site of the predecessor consolidated District C-6's segregated elementary school for African American students.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=all&address=gobler+mo&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1365051&locationName=GOBLER&address2=&address1=201+STATE+ROUTE+J&city=GOBLER&state=MO&zip5=63849&zip4=9998&tollFree=&fax=&tAddress=&tAddress1Ams=&tAddress2Ams=&tCityAms=&tStateAms=&tZipAms=&tCarrierRouteAms=&latitude=36.17204366100049&longitude=-89.91243566299966&sWithin=20&&&&&&&&&
  2. ↑ http://littlerivervalley.com/6/post/2013/11/more-this-and-that.html
  3. ↑ http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED028231.pdf, at p. 47
  4. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=TMphy5gc6aMC&pg=PA198&lpg=PA198&dq=deering+c-6&source=bl&ots=9HXYcO-QBO&sig=DL--Y64GK3BxzGuNWnDPdtZ3tzo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9nskVPexHISqyQTb4IDgCg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=deering%20c-6&f=false, at p. 198

Coordinates: 36°09′22″N 89°57′33″W / 36.15611°N 89.95917°W