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Welcome to Kennonsville ...

Kennonsville is located in Lewis County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Kennonsville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1837.

Time Zone: Kennonsville lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Adding Kennonsville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Kennonsville in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Kennonsville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Kennonsville post office opened in 1837.

We also found Kennonsville in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Kennonsville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Lewis, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/