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* 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 100 years old in 1949 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 Early History of the Fort 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: half way between the Iowa Trail and Postville. 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 (Istad) Post Office: * Oct. 1890-Dec. 1895; Pleasant Township 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: * 1857-1883 Pleasant Twp. Marysville: (became Calmar) Melrose: * platted in Sumner Twp. Moneek * 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; Pleasant Township Sattre Pleasant Township In 2014 remains as a country store located about 14 miles northeast of Decorah. As reported by Susan Jacobsen 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 * Northeast of Fort Atkinson NE, NE, Sec 8-96-9 Washington Township 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.
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