HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY (1878) - ALBANY - UDELL TOWNSHIP

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Posted By: Alice & Wayne Daniels (email)
Date: 3/30/2003 at 11:05:38

HISTORY OF APPANOOSE COUNTY - ALBANY - UDELL TOWNSHIP, PG 472
1878 APPANOOSE COUNTY HISTORY BOOK
1989 REPRINT

ALBANY was once a little village in Section 1, Udell Township, and rose to the prominence derived from having two stores, a post office and a blacksmith-shop. A local chronicler states that the village was once the resort of thieves and counterfeiters, but the historian asks to demur as to false coinage in this part of Iowa.

The building of the Burlington & Missouri road prevented Albany from growing in size, and the construction of the Chicago & Southwestern proved the “killing frost” that ended its existence. In 1873, an excellent crop of corn was raised on the town site. Let the epitaph read, “It might have been.”