Peculiar is a friendly place for all speeders and those who are in violation of their traffic code.  A Defective Equipment will run the speeder $175 to $250.  My fee for Peculiar Missouri is $125.

General Information about Peculiar Missouri

Peculiar received its name in 1868 when the first postmaster, Edgar Thomson, had his first choice, Excelsior, rejected because it already existed in Atchison County, Missouri. Several other choices were also rejected. The story goes that the annoyed Thomson wrote to the Postmaster General himself to complain saying, among other things, “We don’t care what name you give us so long as it is sort of ‘peculiar’,” (with “peculiar” in quotation marks). Washington approved that name. The post office was established on June 22, 1868.

A historical plaque in the town is noteworthy. It reads: “In 1861-1864 while bloody battles raged throughout the southern states nothing happened here.”

The town motto is, appropriately enough, “Where the ‘odds’ are with you”.