Rosati, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri}}
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'''Rosati''' is an unincorporated community in northeast [[Phelps County, Missouri|Phelps County]], [[Missouri]], United States.<ref>{{GNIS|729631}}</ref> The community is adjacent to the Phelps-[[Crawford County, Missouri|Crawford]] county line on [[Missouri Route KK]] four miles (6&nbsp;km) east of [[St. James, Missouri|St. James]]. This road is also the former [[U.S. Route 66 in Missouri|U.S. Highway 66]]. The [[St. Louis–San Francisco Railway]] passes through the community.<ref>''Redbird, MO,'' 15 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1938</ref>

Variant names were "Knobview" and "Spading".<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_phelps.html | title=Phelps County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | accessdate=December 5, 2016 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071446/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_phelps.html | archivedate=June 24, 2016 | url-status=live}}</ref>  The present namesake is the first bishop of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Louis]], the Italian-born [[Joseph Rosati]].<ref name="History" />

The area is part of Missouri's grape-growing region and Rosati is well known for its wines.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rosati-mo.com/history.html|title=Rosati & Knobview, Missouri|website=www.rosati-mo.com}}</ref> The first Italian immigrants attempted to plant grape varieties from [[Italy]], with no success, and instead grew [[Concord grape]]s, used for making juice. In the 1970s, local growers started replacing these vines with wine grape varieties.

== See also ==
* [[Missouri wine]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{URL|http://rosati-mo.com/|City website}}

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[[Category:Italian-American culture in Missouri]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Phelps County, Missouri]]
[[Category:1845 establishments in Missouri]]
[[Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri]]


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