Burfordville, MO

Burfordville is an unincorporated community in western Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States, on the banks of the Whitewater River. Burfordville is located five miles west of Jackson on Route 34. Bufordville is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. Burfordville's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Burfordville's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Bollinger Mill State Historic Site and Burfordville Covered Bridge are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Cape Girardeau County. Major George Bollinger, a Swiss German immigrant, arrived in the area from North Carolina. He built the first mill on the Whitewater River in 1797.