Post Offices

SHOBE

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/24/2009 at 10:35:15

Dubuque Weekly Times, November 21, 1861.

POST OFFICE ITEMS.-
List of post offices in Iowa established, discontinued, and names of which have changed, from the last of September to October 31, 1861.

ESTABLISHED.

Anderson, Clayton county
Baker, Jefferson county
*Higginsport, Jackson county
Point Palestine, Story county
Sumner, Bremer county
Care Center, Jones county
Viola, Linn county
Shob’s Grove, Franklin county
Oakland Valley, Franklin county
Clayford, Jones county
Brownsville, Mitchell county
Uncle Abe, Davis county
*Mount Olive, Mills county
*Re-established

DISCONTINUED

Floyd Creek, Floyd county
Strawberry Hill, Muscatine county
Side Hill, Cedar county
Riverside, Dubuque county
Brushy, Taylor county
Sullivan, Jackson county
Charlottesville, Madison county
West Milton, Guthrie county

NAMES OF WHICH HAVE BEEN CHANGED

Wexford, Allamakee county, to Harper’s Ferry
Wagonersburg, Jackson county, to Otter Creek
St. Charles City, Floyd county, to Charles City
Westfield, Fayette county, to Fayette
Leoni, Butler county, to Clarksville.