Winneshiek Co. IAGenWeb

Please note: Many times villages grew up around post offices or post offices were located at or near villages and they may or may not have had the same names. Towns, post offices, mills and communities marked with * are no longer in existence. Those in red are communities listed as populated at http://www.placenames.com/us/p464671/

Agency: * Shown on early maps where
Old Mission was later located.
Alba: * July -Dec. 1861
Aquilla Grove Post Office: *
Oct. 1856-April 1865 Canoe Twp.
Beldings Mill * 1856 plat map,
Hesper or Canoe Twp.
Big Canoe: * Sep.-Nov. 1864
Bluffton: Sep.1855-May 1905
Booty *
Brandt's Mill * 1856 plat map,
Pleasant Twp.
Burroak: * 1856 map
Burr Oak: Burr Oak Twp.
Burr Oak Springs: * 1856 map,
Sumner Twp. Post office 1858-64
Byrne
*Calmar: platted in 1854
Canoe Post Office: * 1857-1905
Canoe Twp.
Carter's Mills: * 1856 plat map,
Fremont Twp.
Castalia
Clifton: * 1856 county map,
Fremont Twp.
Conover: * Calmar Twp. 1874 map
Counover*
Cupid*
Decorah (County Seat)
Dunnings Mill: * 1856 plat map,
Decorah Twp.
Eide Post Office: * Sep. 1876-Oct.
1881, Pleasant Twp.
Elliot's Mill: * 1856 plat map,
Pleasant Twp.
Festina: (formerly Twin Springs)
Fort Atkinson
Franklin Prairie Post Office: *June
1857-Dec. 1858; Canoe Twp.
Frankville Post Office: * Sep. 1853-
June 1911 Frankville Twp.

Freeport: platted in 1854
Grab-all: The army stationed a
sergeant's guard there to
"grab all" the Indians passing that
way for removal.
Hesper: Hesper Twp.
Highlandville: Highland Twp.
Hyde Post Office: * June 1886-Jan.
1889; Frankville Twp.
Isted Post Office: * Oct. 1890-Dec.
1895; location unknown
Jackson Junction (formerly Alba, or
New Alba): Jackson Twp.
Jamestown Post Office: * July 1851-
March 1852 (became Trout River)
Kendallville: * (was Twin Springs)
Lewiston: * platted 1 mile north of
Old Mission, Washington Twp.
Linndale
Locust: * (formerly Locust Lane)
Locust Lane Post Office: * 1857-183
Pleasant Twp.
Marysville: (became Calmar)
Melrose: * platted in Sumner Twp.
Moneek: * Bloomfield Twp.
Morgan Post Office: * 1857-1866
Orleans Twp.
Morses Mills: * 1856 plat map
Bluffton
Nasset *
Navan: * Jackson Twp.
New Alba: * Dec. 1861-July 1883
Jackson Twp.
Nordness: * Springfield Twp.
Old Mission Post Office: * 1852-1882
Washington Twp.
Orleans Post Office: * 1854-1857;
location unknown
Ossian: platted in 1855 Military Twp.
Painters Mill: * built 1849 Decorah
Pilot Grove: * 1856 plat map,

Pilot Grove Twp.
Plymouth Rock Post Office* 1856-1907
Fremont Twp.
Protivin*
Rattletrap: early name for Castalia
Ridgeway
Rogers Mills: * 1856 plat map,
Canoe Twp.
Sampson Post Office: * 1893-1894;
location unknown
Sattre *
Spillmans Mill: * 1856 plat map
Washington Twp.
*Spillville
Spielville: 1874 plat map
Springwater: * (formerly Big Canoe)
Springwater Post Office: * 1864-1896
Canoe Twp. See Aquilla Grove
St. George Mill: * 1856 plat
map Washington Twp.
Thorien
Thoten Post Office: * 1876-1903
Glenwood Twp.
Trout River: * 1856 plat map
Frankville Twp.
Twin Springs Post Office: 1856-1874, now
Kendalville
Twin Springs: platted 1856, now Festina,
which was the name of the post office
Valley City *
Washington Prairie: Glenwood Twp.
Whiskey Grove: * east of Calmar
Willimantic Post Office: Fremont Twp.
1856-1858 and 1861-1863
Winneshiek Post Office: *1851-1865;
on 1856 plat map Bloomfield Twp.
Woodside Post Office: * 1876-1886
Frankville Twp.
Woodville Post Office: * 1866-1887,
Greenwood Twp.

Note: The above list comes from a variety of sources including the "History of Winneshiek and Allamakee Counties, Iowa" 1882. If you come across information about these towns, mills, communities or post offices or any that are not listed, please contact the county coordinator.