Rockbridge, MO

ROCKBRIDGE, a small post-village, capital of Ozark county, Missouri, on Bryant's fork of White river, 150 miles S. from Jefferson City. It is situated in a hilly region, in which pine timber is abundant.  (Baldwin & Thomas, A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States ... 1854)

ROCKBRIDGE  A post office of Ozark county, 127 miles south of Jefferson City.  (Missouri State Gazetteer..., 1860)

ROCKBRIDGE  the county-seat [Ozark County, Missouri], is the only town of note in the county. It has a favorable location on the North Fork of White River, a little south of the center of the county, and bids fair to become a place of importance.   (Parker's Missouri as it is in 1867..., 1867)