Athelstan
- town history |
Bedford
- Doc Golliday
story, part 1 |
Bedford - Doc Golliday story, part 2 |
Blockton - Mormantown |
Clearfield - A man near Clearfield
found gold while digging a well. Assay of
the ore said it had $3.65 worth of gold
and silver in it. Nodaway Democrat,
Maryville, Mo, 21 Jan 1897 |
Conway - There
were recently 16 buildings destroyed in a fire at Conway, Ia.
Nodaway Democrat, Maryville, Mo. 07 Sep 1893
|
Conway - history from IOWA SOUTH-WEST, 1878 |
Gravity |
1) Article by Mrs Celesta Smith published in The Gravity Independent; 1934 2) Taylor County, Iowa History, 1881 3) Gravity location correction 4) TAYLOR COUNTY REPUBLICAN, Bedford, Iowa: Mar 2, 1882 - Gravity items 5) History of Gravity, Iowa. Written by Mrs Frank (Lena) Ambrose |
Guss |
Iowa
City - Iowa City is the
name of the new town located on "diagonal road,"
half of the town in Taylor county, Iowa and half in
Worth county, Mo. It's 17 mi from Bedford, 16 mi from Grant
City, and 17 mi from Hopkins. Nodaway
Democrat, Maryville, Mo, 13 Oct 1887 |
Henshaw - Mabel Weil, 3 years old, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Weil of near
Henshaw, died Wednesday, Sept. 26,
1917, of blood poisoning. Her parents
brought her to Clarinda the day of
her death. A physician here was
consulted. It was thought that she
was getting along well. On their way
home near the residence of Ed Fiddler,
in Nebraska township, she died. The
funeral took place Friday at 2 p.m., at
the Methodist Episcopal church in
Hawleyville, conducted by Rev. E. P.
Douglas of New Market, and burial was in the Hawleyville cemetery. CLARINDA JOURNAL, Clarinda, Iowa, Oct 4, 1917 |
Ladoga - by Georgia Glasmann |
Lenox - Lenox Area Chamber of Commerce, 200 1/2 South Main Street, Lenox, Ia 50851: 641.333.4272. |
Lenox Hotel, picture and article. Lenox Times-Table 31 Mar 1921 |
Lenox - 85 years of progress |
Lenox - Lenox Centennial Book |
Memory |
New Market |
New Market early history |
New Market telephone system |
The new town over at Memory, on the & & S. Ry., is now laid off and platted, and the parties over there who have been anxious to get lots can do so at once. PAGE COUNTY DEMOCRAT, Clarinda, Iowa, Mar 30, 1882 |
Taylor County Republican, Bedford, Iowa, 1883 04 12 : Dallas Doings: Newmarket is one year old to-day. That is, it has been one year since the first stakes were drove in surveying off the town. She has now 90 houses, 30 of which are business houses and over 300 inhabitants. |
Platteville by Marilyn Mutti |
Platteville Town History from Julia Johnson |
Platteville Town History, 1878 from Pat O'Dell |