Caldwell County MO Archives History .....THE OLD CLAMPITT HOTEL AND THE OLD STATE ROAD 
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THE OLD CLAMPITT HOTEL AND THE OLD STATE ROAD
	Narrator:  Mrs. E. Dawson, 90, Hamilton

     Mrs. Dawson came into the county 1870 and things were still rather 
primitive.  There was an old hotel on the country roads in their community 
which interested her.  It was the Clampitt Hotel, a typical part log house 
built in Arrow Rock style.  They had built it probably as a private home, but 
a stage road ran by it and often, the passengers would spend the night there 
before going further on the road.  It was built near a deer lick and a famous 
spring then.  Eventually it ceased being a hotel possibly because of the end 
of the state road.  It burned down about 40 years ago.
     At that time, section lines had been set as the place for roads but these 
lines were not yet well-followed, by reason of lack of bridges and 
convenience.  The stage road which passed the Clampitt house was rutted by 
wagons and sunken and washed, which bothered the eastern folk, but did not 
worry the older settlers at all.  People said that the old stage road was 
originally an Indian hunting trail, then wagons and a road was made without 
any effort!  Several years ago, this old state road could still be seen by 
those who knew where to look, in fenced in ploughed fields.  Farmers still 
complain of certain corners being hard to push the plow through.
     This old Hotel was on the road east of Hamilton about four miles out.
     Interview  1934.


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