Kaysinger Bluff

This is an excerpt of an updated article By Dan Miles The Clinton - Mo. Daily Democrat - May 22, 2019

When the project was first designated, it was the Kaysinger Bluff Dam and Reservoir, Osage River Basin, Missouri, authorized by the Flood Control Act approved Sept 3, 1954 In actuality, Kaysinger Bluff should have really been called "Kaysingle" Bluff It derived its name from the Kaysingle family, German immigrants who lived near the bluff and used its caves and crevices to burn wood into charcoal for sale in the early days of Benton County during the 1800s In subsequent years

the name became "Kaysinger' through being