Post Offices

HIGGINS, WAGONER, SULLIVAN

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/21/2009 at 12:51:32

Dubuque Weekly Times
November 21, 1861

Post Office Items. – List of post offices in Iowa established, discontinued, and names of which have been changed, from the last of September to October 31, 1861.

Established.
Anderson, Clayton county.
Baker, Jefferson county.
*Higginsport, Jackson county.
Point Palestine, Story county.
Sumner, Bremer county.
Cass Center, Jones county.
Viola, Linn county.
Shobe’s Grove, Franklin county.
Oakland Valley, Franklin county.
Clayford, Jones county.
Brownsville, Mitchell county.
Uncle Abe, Davis county.
Mount Olive, Mills county.
*Re-established.

Discontinued.
Flood Creek, Floyd county.
Strawberry Hill, Muscatine county.
Side Hill, Cedar county.
Riverside, Dubuque county.
Brusby, Taylor county.
Sullivan, Jackson county.
Charlottesville, Madison county.
West Milton, Guthrie county.

Names of which have been changed:
Wexford, Allamakee county, to Harper’s Ferry.
Wagonersburg, Jackson county, to Otter Creek.
St. Charles City, Floyd county, to Charles City.
Westfield, Fayette county, to Fayette.
Leoni, Butler county, to Clarksville.