Lee County Iowa
Genealogy
TOWNS & TOWNSHIPS OF LEE CO.
ABANDONED TOWNS OF LEE CO.
COMMUNITIES STILL POPULATED
&
TOWNS WITH U.S. POST OFFICE
Thanks to Erma Derosear and Betty Haas for help with this page
Abandoned Towns
Ambrosia
Montrose Twp. Road dividing Sec. 7,8, and 17,18. A post office
from 1840 to 1857
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Atlee/Edwards
West Point Twp. Sec. 12. The name of a railroad station, it was
later changed to Edwards.
Ballenger
Montrose Twp. Sec. 36. Also known as Ballenger's Siding and Ballenger's Switch. Settlement of cabins along the bank of the
Mississippi River. In the 1870's timber and tin shacks were the homes of approximately 500 men who worked on the construction of the canal to bypass the rapids on the Mississippi River.
Beck
Twp. Sec.
Belfast
Van Buren Twp. Sec. 2
Benbow
Washington Twp. Sec. 7. A Railroad Station.
Big Mound
Cedar Twp. At common corners of Sec 19,20,29 and 30. Post Office
1852-1903.
Bluff Park
Montrose Twp. Sec. A community of summer homes overlooking the
Mississippi River.
Bluffs Siding
Twp. Sec.
Bricker
Buena Vista
Twp. Sec.
Bullards Station
Jefferson Twp. Sec 11
Camargo
Des Moines Twp. Sec. 20. The name of the post office of Vincennes
from 1852 to 1858 at the village and railway station of Sand
Prairie.
Camackville
Cedar Twp. Sec. 12. A post office from 1869-1875 when it was
changed to White Lane. Post office was discontinued in 1876.
Clays Grove
Marion Twp. Sec. 29. A post office from 1857-1863, and again from
1868-1892.
Connable
Des MoinesTwp. Sec. 1 Connables took over the railway station
after the tracks were moved. Therefore the name. Had previouly
been Melrose.
Cottonwood
Cedar Twp. Sec 10.
Courtwright/Mt Hamill
Cedar Twp. Sec. 25. The name of the post office for a few months
in 1881, change to Hamill and at present Mt Hamil
Croton
Van Buren Twp
Doantown
Cedar Twp. Sec. 15. Another name for Russelville.
Dover
Franklin Twp. Sec. 8. Was formally Tuscarora, a post office was
formed there in 1840, by 1853 the name was changed.
Edwards
See Atlee
Franklin Center
Franklin Twp. Sec 23 and 26. Town was laid out in 1840 and was
intended for the county seat. Its post office, Franklin Center,
was from 1843 to 1883 when it was changed to Franklin. It then
ran until 1920.
Galland
Montrose Twp. Sec. 24. First school in Iowa here.
Green Bay
Green Bay Twp. Sec. 9. A post office for a few months in 1851 and
again from 1854 to 1859.
Hazen
Washington Twp. Sec. 17. A railway station.
Hinsdale
Des Moines Twp. Sec. 24.
Jeffersonville
Jefferson Twp. Sec. 16. A village on the railway. It was laid out
in 1867, but failed to build up due to its close proximity to
Viele. The post office established before the village was
platted, ran from 1856 with the exception of two short
intermissions, until 1876.
Jollyville
Green Bay Twp
La Crew
Parts of Franklin and Madison Twp. Sec.
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1887 Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1887-88 Volume IV La Crew. On the St. L, R. & N. W. Ry, in
Lee county, 19 miles west of Fort Madison, the county seat, and 9 south of
Salem, the nearest banking point. Population, 50. Tel. W. ?. Exp., Am Dr.
R. H. Todd, postmaster. 1922-1923 Polk’s Iowa State Gazetteer
and Business Directory Vol XX Laughlin W. W., general store Iowa State Gazetteer and Business
Directory 1918-1919 Vol XIX Griffith J. D., blacksmith
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Madison
Martensville
Twp. Sec. Madison Twp. In 1836 the town now known as Ft. Madison
was called Madison
Meirotto
Marion Twp. Sec. 25. A village and railroad station.
Melrose
Des Moines Twp. Sec. 1. A railway station. The railroad was
relocated and the station was taken over by Connables.
Monterey
Montrose Twp. Sec. Found on a 1857 map between Nashville and
Keokuk, on the railroad.
Messingerville
Jackson Twp.
Mount Clara
Twp. Sec.
Nashville
Montrose Twp. Sec. 24. The former name of Galland. Nashville was
laid out in 1841. It had a post office for part of the year 1843,
but it was discontinued.
Overton/Pilot Grove
Marion Twp. Sec. 22 The former name of the railroad station and
post office of Pilot Grove.
Pitman
Prairie House
Charleston Twp. Sec. 22. The name of the railway station, and
post office from 1843 to 1850 when the name was changed to
Charleston.
Russelville/Doantown
Cedar Twp. Sec 15. Town was laid out in 1858. Also called
Doantown.
Saint Paul
Sand Prairie
Twp. Sec.
Sawyer
Washington Twp. Sec. 7.
Shopton
South Augusta
Denmark Twp. Sec. 25. A village on the south side of the Des
Moines River oppisite the town of Augusta. It was surveyed in
1842, but no permanent town developed.
South Franklin
Franklin Twp. Sec. 35. The former name of the railway station
near Franklin.
String Prairie
Des Moines Twp. Sec, 15. A post office indicated on maps of
1854.
Sugar Creek
Montrose Twp. Sec. 30 and Des Moines Twp. Sec. 25. The first
Swedish settlement in Lee County,
Tuscarora
Franklin Twp. Sec. 8. A post office was established here in 1840.
In 1853 the name was changed to Dover.
Van Buren
Van Buren Twp. Sec The name first given to the post office established at Warren, the railroad station in Sec 36, Harrison Twp.
This was from January to December, 1849.
Viele
Jefferson Twp. Sec. 10. This town was never platted. It was named for Phillip Viele, a pioneer Ft. Madison lawyer. In 1868 Daniel Weise was appointed the first Postmaster. The
post office closed in 1911.
Warren
Harrison Twp. Sec. 36
White Lane/Camackville
The name of a post office formerly called Camackville, which see above. It was located at White's Iowa Intitute of
Manual Labor,
Sec. 14, Cedar Twp.
Yeargerville
Charleston Twp. Sec. A former station on the old Keokuk and Northwestern Railroad
Westcott
Wilcox
Zarahemla
The name of the plat of a projected pioneer town somewhere in Lee County