Andersonville renamed

ANDERSONVILLE, FERN

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 2/18/2011 at 19:21:12

The name of the town of Andersonville in the north part of the county has been changed to Fern. The former name sounded too much like a rebel prison and had become quite odious to the inhabitants of that village.

--The Grundy County Republican (Grundy Center, Iowa), 31 May 1894