Historical For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 666
BLOOMINGTON TOWNSHIP.

This township was set off from Bloomington on the fall of 1887. It comprises all of the township 76, range 2, except a small part now comprising Muscatine Township, and that part of township76, range 3, lying east of Muscatine Slough. The vote for division was taken in the fall of 1886, and every vote in the north part of Bloomington Township was cast for division, while every vote on the island was cast against division. The reason for this is given that the north part was supplied with school-houses, while on the island they were yet to be built. The north part did not care to be taxed for that purpose, while the island people believed it to be right that they should help build them.

The first trustees in the new township were : William A. Dolsen, John A. Miller, P. F. Parmalee. The township took its name from the village of that name, which is situated in the southern part. It contains one store and post-office, and from the station are shipped vast quantities of vegetables and fruit--the products of the island and surrounding country. Fruitland is a station of the southwestern branch of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad.

Among the first settlers of the island were : T. H. Drake, A. Barrows, S. I. Foss. David Freeman, William D. Lawrence, Elihu Partridge, H. Corwin, and Mr. Garnes.

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