Excelsior is an extinct town in Atchison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

[2] The community took its name from the Excelsior Wheel Mill on the Missouri River.

[4] In 1869, the Excelsior wheel took the place of an overshot mill in section 33 of Benton Toiwnship, and eight years afterwards, in 1877, a turbine wheel was added.

Nothing stands at the original location as the wheel was removed leaving only a dilapidated frame of the wheel house as reported in 1881.

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