Annotations
              HERMITAGE, a small post-village, capital of Hickory county, Missouri, near the right or E. bank of Pomme de Terre river, 80 miles W. S. W. from Jefferson City. (Baldwin & Thomas, A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States ... 1854)
HERMITAGE The county seat of Hickory county, Centre township, a flourishing little town containing one Church, viz: Methodist. This town was first settled by Thomas Davis in 1843. Present population 92. W.Y. Evans, County Sheriff. (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)
Geographic
Latitude
              37.945134
          Longitude
              -93.328956
          Type
              City or Town
          County
              Hickory
          State
              Missouri