LOUISA COUNTY, IOWA

HISTORY of
LOUISA COUNTY IOWA

Volume I

BY ARTHUR SPRINGER, 1912

Submitted by Lynn McCleary, November 10, 2013

CHAPTER XVII.

VILLAGES AND TOWNS

Other towns, not already referred to, are:

pg 320

CANNONSBURGH, laid out by R. B. Cannon on the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 28, township 74 north, range 5 west, surveyed by John Huston, April 2, 1856. This was an "Air Line" town. J. E. Nesbit had a store here, but the "town" has long since passed away.

MARSH, laid out by Moses Chilson, December 10, 1884, situated on the northeast quarter of section 30, 73-4, and it adjoins the Iowa Central railway right of way on the north.

NEWPORT, laid out by Harriet H. Briggs, December 23, 1885, on the northwest part of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 27, 73-3.

WYMAN, laid out by T. W. Barhydt, trustee, in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 30, 74-5' Wyman is the only town in Elm Grove township, and is a good trading point, especially since the establishment of the new bank there.


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