CLIFTON.

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is described on the plat book as the second station west of Muscatine on the Mississippi & Missouri railroad, situated on the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 23, township 75 north, range 5 west, and was laid out by Joseph A. Green and George C. Stone, October 16, 1858. The railroad extends east and west with a bend to the north through the south half of the plat, the greater part of the town as platted being on the north side of the railroad.

Haywood's addition to Clifton was laid out by George Haywood, September 4, 1865. The location is described as follows on the plat book: "Such addition is laid upon the east side and will not vary far from 589 feet wide of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 23 of township 75 north, of range 5 west, and adjoins the original town plat of Clifton on the north and is an extension north the entire length of said northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 23.

Clifton is now but a memory, and yet the census of 1860 gives it 46 people and that of 1870 gives it 200. In 1867 the Methodists and Catholics each built churches there. It had two lumber yards, two hotels and several stores. Geo. Haywood was the first agent there, as he had been at Fredonia: he was also the first postmaster. Wm. Klotz kept hotel there, and Geo. W. Merrill, J. L. & P. H. Collins, and Russell & Gallup had stores. Clifton was at one time the shipping point for Columbus City, Union and part of Wapello townships.

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