the farms of former Bend post masters Hiram King and Samuel Bradford. For the final 36 years of the existence of the Saint Annie Post office it was located in Laclede County in the home of Ben Crismon about six miles east of Nebo. The Crismon farm was half way between the post office at Plato and the post office at Cookville along the route on Roubidoux Creek. The Plato and Cookville offices were about six miles in either direction. The Saint Annie post office was discontinued on July 15, 1930 and sent to Cookville. In 1930 the Gulf Oil Company was building a pumping station for a new pipeline near the Crismon farm on what is now U Highway in Laclede County. The community that developed at the pump station which included several homes, a store, an auto repair shop, and the school known as Blackbird School was known as Gulf City and should not be confused with Saint Annie. Both the Saint Annie church and school were on land in Pulaski County that was taken by the government to form Fort Leonard Wood. The Saint Annie cemetery was moved by the United States Army to the Bloodland Cemetery, also on Fort Leonard Wood. The Saint Annie Baptist Church "owned their own church building and functioned as a church until the Fort took it and the money that the Fort paid was used to buy the Pulaski County Baptist camp.” The bell from the church was placed on the lawn of the Pulaski County Courthouse in Waynesville. The brand new Saint Annie School building, which had just been completed, was demolished by the military. The remains of the foundation of that school building and the nearby cemetery of the Macedonia Christian Church are the only visible traces left of the St Annie community. References Unincorporated communities in Laclede County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri