Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
“Henry Blosser House is a historic home located near Malta Bend, Saline County, Missouri. It was built in 1880, and is a three-story, Second Empire style red-orange brick farmhouse.”
Wikipedia article Henry Blosser House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 26 National Register listings published here for Saline County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Marshall Township. History of Saline County, Missouri, Carefully Written and Compiled from the Most Authentic Official and Private Sources ... with a Condensed History of Missouri; the State Constitution; a Military Record of Its Volunteers in Either Army of the Great Civil War ... Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men .., published 1881 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers the township.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Marshall Township - 3,425 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Malta Bend, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 6 flash flood, 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Malta Bend | $5,000 | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Malta Bend | - | A supercell produced quarter size hail on the southeast side of Malta Bend in Saline County. |
| August 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Malta Bend | - | Live stream from a storm chaser showed a brief tornado that began just ENE of Malta Bend near Highway 65 and continued to the east about 1.5 miles before ending. |
| June 2014 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | Water flowing over Highway 65 east Malta Bend. |
| June 2008 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | Highway 65 closed between Malta Bend and the intersection of Route N, due to water running over the roadway. |
| June 2003 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | High water on Highway 65 and H Highway due to heavy rains. |
| May 2003 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | Water over Highway 65. |
| July 2003 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | Highway 65 under water around Malta Bend due to very heavy rains. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Malta Bend | - | no account filed |
| April 1999 | Hail | Malta Bend | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Malta Bend | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Flash Flood | Malta Bend | - | no account filed |
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Trail-Saline County Trail Segments | 2.8 miles | 1994 | |
| Mt. Carmel Historic District | 4.4 miles | 2009 | |
| Van Meter State Park Combination Building | 5.3 miles | 1985 | |
| Van Meter State Park Shelter Building | 5.4 miles | 1985 | |
 | Chicago and Alton Depot | 6.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Saline County Courthouse | 7.0 miles | 1977 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78001675 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Saline County | All 26 listed properties in this county. |
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