Early Towns and Discontinued Post Offices of

Wayne County, Iowa

From "Annals of Iowa", Volume 18

AETNA - A former station on the C.B.& Q. R.R. about three miles east of Corydon.

BENTONVILLE - Est. 1887 discon. 1895. A village and station on the C.B.&Q.R.R. about five miles northwest of Corydon. Formerly called Peoria.

BETHLEHEM - Est. 1852 discon. 1902. A town platted in 1853 in the northeast corner of section 24, Union Township.

BIG SPRING - Est. 1857 discon. 1901. A post office in Sec. 17, Jefferson Township.

BRIDGEPORT - A former station on the C.B.& Q. R.R. about four miles west of Promise City.

CAMBRIA - Est. 1851. A former village and station on the C.B.&Q. R.R. about seven miles northwest of Corydon.

CLINTON CENTER - Est. 1893 discon. 1902. A hamlet in the southeastern part of section 9, and the southwestern part of section 10, Clinton Township.

CONFIDENCE - Est 1859 discon. 1903. A village in the southeast corner of section 11 and the northeast corner of Section 14, Wright Township.

GENOA - Est. 1856 discon. 1904. A village laid out in 1855 in the southwestern part of section 13 Monroe township.

GRAINVILLE - Est 1876 discon. 1882. The former name of the present village of Harvard. Grainville was also the name of the P.O.

GRAND RIVER - Est. 1851 discon. 1872. A post office in southwestern part of Grand River Township at or near the location of the present town of Lineville.

HAPPY HOLLOW - A hamlet about two miles east of Harvard in the years around 1900, principally occupied by coal miners.

HARVARD - Est 1882 discon. 1953. A former village and station on the C. R. I. & P. R.R. about five miles east of Allerton.

HODGE - Est 1884 discon. 1898. A station on the C.R.I.& P. R.R. between Allerton and Clio.

KNIFFIN - Est. 1858 discon. 1903. First a country post office and after the building of the railway in 1871, a station on the C.R.I. & P. R. R. in section 18 Walnut Township.

LEWISBURG - Est. 1857 discon. 1902. A village in the center of section 20 Clay Township.

LUCERNE - Est. 1860 discon. 1867. A post office in the eastern part of Richman Township.

NEW YORK - Est. 1856 discon. 1903. A village platted in 1855 in the southeastern part of section 22 Union Township.

ORLANDO - Est. 1860 discon. 1862. A post office somewhat southwest of the center of Benton Township about five miles west of Corydon.

OVID - Est. 1891 discon. 1902. A post office in section 19 Union Township.

PEORIA - Platted as a town in 1853 on the south line of section 10 and north line of section 15 Benton Township midway as to east and west of that line and about five miles northwest of Corydon. In the late 1880's the name was changed to Bentonville.

SAMVILLE - Est 1886 discon. 1887. A post office at or near the later village of Bentonville.

SAXON - Est. 1888 discon. 1901. A post office in section 25 Clay Township.

SELMA - Est. 1866 discon. 1978. A post office in section 4 Richman Township.

SOUTH FORK - Est 1849 discon. 1862. A post office near the northeast corner of South Fork Township on the south fork of the Chariton River.

UNA - Est 1863 discon. 1864. A place in the southwestern part of Union Township about six miles north of Corydon.

WARSAW - Est 1855 and 1861 discon 1866 and 1903. A hamlet in the northwest corner of Section 8 Howard Township.

WAYNE CROSS ROADS - Est. 1858 discon. 1860. Listed as a post office in Wayne County, but the location not found.

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