Hello List, Though I haven't seen the map, if the town is not "Pennytown" that Tracy has written about, it may well be another community that I heard spoken of when I was a youngster. Somewhere in Saline County, close to Marshall, I think, was a community of a hundred to two or three hundred souls (at its largest) that was always referred to as "Stringtown". I do know that there is a road south of Lone Jack, Missouri, known as Stringtown Road. It seems too far away to be connected but does establish the existence of the name. The folks I heard of it from would have been born around 1890 to 1910 and were all retired when I spoke to them in the Fifties and Sixties. It was spoken of in the past tense at the time, so I assume it had already become a ghost town. Phil Lindsey