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Iowa State Law required Ferry Licenses to Pilot a Boat Across the Cedar River.

Muscatine County Board of Supervisors Minutes Index, Book One
Muscatine County Auditor’s Office

Transcribed & submitted by Lynn McCleary, December 3, 2011


Ferry License Issued to Date Page Name of Record
Cedar River Ferry at mouth of Wapsie Lewis Layman 6 Apr 1842 41 Com. Record "B"
Cedar River Ferry at Boggs ferry Elias Overman 18 Apr 1842 45 Com. Record "B"
Ferry Rates over Cedar River established   4 Oct 1843 116 Com. Record "B"
to keep ferry over Cedar River at Boggs ferry Elias Overman 3 Jan 1844 129 Com. Record "B"
to keep ferry over Cedar River known as Powsheck Ferry L. J. Lockwood 5 Jan 1844 132 Com. Record "B"
across Cedar River at pt. opp. house of Thos. C. Dowell for 12 years Thos. C. Dowell 5 Jul 1847 118 Com. Record "D"
Ferry Rates on Cedar River changed   5 Jul 1847 118 Com. Record "D"
granted for 1 year to keep ferry across Cedar River Thos Carroll 7 Jul 1848 67 Com. Record "D"
granted for 1 year to keep ferry across Cedar River Enoch Overman 7 Jul 1848 67 Com. Record "D"
to keep ferry over Cedar River at Moscow James Portes 3 Jul 1849 126 Com. Record "D"
over Cedar River to Oct 3, 1850 Enoch Overman 1 Jul 1850 188 Com. Record "D"
license renewed for ferry across Cedar River Nathan Odell 8 Oct 1850 211 Com. Record "D"
license renewed for ferry across Cedar River Enoch Overman 8 Oct 1850 211 Com. Record "D"
to run a ferry across Cedar at Moscow Henry Lange 5 Apr 1853 2 County Judge "A"
at Carothers ferry Cedar River Robert Behran 4 Apr 1854 41 County Judge "A"
for 4 years to operate a ferry across Cedar River at Moscow Henry Lang 2 May 1859 404 County Judge "A"
for 4 years to operate a ferry across Cedar River at Cedar Bridge Road Abner Coble 2 May 1859 405 County Judge "A"
ferry License granted [no other details listed in index] Harry Graham 5 Jan 1866 537 Minute Book "A"
Charter granted and accepted by the Muscatine Ferry Co. Muscatine Ferry Co. 2 Jun 1868 93 Minute Book "B"
granted to Henry Lange of Moscow for 10 years Henry Lange 4 Jun 1868 106 Minute Book "B"
over Cedar River at Odell Road Edw. Brown 8 Jun 1869 177 Minute Book "B"
over Cedar River Abner Coble 19 Oct 1869 218 Minute Book "B"
at Cobels Ferry H. Breckenridge 6 Sep 1871 377 Minute Book "B"
at Moscow Henry Lange 14 Jan 1873 472 Minute Book "B"

No other Ferry Licenses were noted after this point up through 1900.

It is not known as to where these early Minute Books are stored.
They could be shelved in the attic of the Court House, somewhere.

First bridge over the Cedar River was built at Lord's ferry in 1879.

May 2, 1894, the board of supervisors made an appropriation to build a bridge over Cedar river near Breckenridge ferry.


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