FROM DELAWARE COUNTY-1869

EARL, HASKINS, PARKER, MORELAND, FULLER, BLODGETT, GOODYEAR, WILKESON

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 5/2/2018 at 21:18:40

Dubuque Daily Times, Sunday, Oct 31, 1869, Dubuque, IA, Page: 2

FROM DELAWARE COUNTY

George M. Earl has made sale of all his town lots and real estate, in Earlville, consisting of three hundred acres, including the fine belt of timber just south of the village, for the sum of $9,000 to Samuel E. Haskins, of Stueben County, New York. He is a brother of Dr. Haskins of Earlville, and a man of good business capacity, and sufficient capital to make his purchase a successful enterprise; and we learn that he is intending soon to lay out in lots and offer for sale some thirty acres lying directly north of town, and no doubt he will find a ready sale for them as nearly all of the good lots in town are sold. One man has sold nearly fifty building lots, this season, located in the eastern part of the town, and belonging to a man in New York, some of which have already been built on, and otherwise that will be used for building purposes next season.

George M. Earl came to this place June 10, 1854, and at that time there was not a dwelling house within two miles of where he built his cabin, just south of his present dwelling, and since that time he has seen the railroad located, a fine village spring up, bearing his name, and the raw prairie dotted with all over with comfortable farm houses, and Delaware County, with its few inhabitants, increase until at present numbers about 16,000 souls with but little comparability unbroken soil within the county.

No less than eight new dwelling houses and several new barns have been erected during the season, besides many additions, piazzas, etc. Among the first piazzas in town may be mentioned the one built by S. F. Parker, Esq., in front of his dwelling house; also, the new one built by J. B. Moreland & Co., in front of their store, which is certainly the finest of anything of the kind in this town.

Messrs. Fuller & Blodgett have built a fine drug store that adds considerably to their facility for doing business. Goodyear Bros. are busy erecting a new hotel building on the corner opposite the old hotel. It is 28x50 feet, and three stories high, and work on the same is being pushed forward as fast as ten men can do it.

A part of the second story will be fitted for a public hall, and is there is none in the place, it will be a great convenience.

A good many apples have been raised in this vicinity the past season by Geo. M. Earl, Mr. Wilkeson and others; but the largest we have known have been raised by A. J. Rector, a farmer, residing two mile north of this place. He raised some of what he calls the Shaker Russet variety, weighing 18 ounces each.
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