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POTIAWATIAMIE COUNTY Ron Chamberlain Featured Speaker GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY at February Pot-Luck Dinner PO Box 394, Co. Bluffs. . 51502 Ron Chamberlain, Committee Chairman Phone 712-325-9368 WESTERN IOWA PIONEER of the Western Iowa Pioneer Cemetery CEMETERY [email protected] ASSOCIATION Association, gave society members an intro­ duction to their association at the PCGS http://WWW.rootsweb.ancestry.com/-iapcgs/ February 12, 2013 potluck dinner. Mark Franz webmaster Mr. Chamberlain said the WIPCA was Bob Anderson - newsletter editor organized in the summer of 2010 to work toward preserving cemeteries in Shelby and 2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Harrison counties. Its goal is to "develop Vern Snipes. President into an organization that can assist in work­ ing towards an equal level of care for all Richard Beck. Past President memorials to our ancestors no matter where Joyce George, Vice President they lay at eternal rest." Barb Christie. Corresponding Sec. The first cemetery they worked in was Joan Weis. Recording Sec. Galland's Grove-RLDS Holcomb Cemetery. Sharon Snipes, Treasurer Galland' s Grove, the first settlement in this area, was settled by Abraham Galland in 1848. It was later populated by Latter Day Saints and by 1854, the Directors: population reached 174. Omaha and Pottawattamie Indians passed through Mary Lou Burke this area at the time on hunting expeditions. Marilyn Erwin According to their records there should be 173 burials here, but they could Roland Lynch only account for 158 burials, which means there are 15 burials that are miss­ ing. They did find some headstones that had fallen over and were buried. Research: They will be returning to look for the additional stones and repair any that Mary Lou Burke, Barb Christie. Marilyn Erwin. need repair. Membership in the association is $10.00 I single, $15.00 I family, Doloris Mauer. Joan Weis. $25.00 I business or organization, and $100.00 I lifetime. For more infor­ mation, contact Ron Chamberlain at (712) 489-2736. FRONTIER HERITAGE LIBRARY 622 South 4th St, Co. Bluffs. Iowa Two Questions for Members ? ? ?#1 - A question has arisen in regards to our membership list. Some mem­ Meetings are held at 7:00 p.m. on the second bers want a copy of our membership list with phone numbers, addresses and Tuesday of each Quarter beginning in February. email addresses. Some just want a list of members with their phone numbers. Membership is $20.00 per year for individuals Please let us know your thoughts at [email protected]. No decision and $25.00 for families. Membership includes will be made until the next board meeting. If we do not hear from you we will four quarterly publications of the Frontier presume your vote is "no." Chronicle newsletter. ?#2 - If you would like to receive the newsletter onlv by email, please let me Ancestor Certificates are available for ancestors know at [email protected] It would be sent to you as a .pdf fi le which can who lived in Pottawattamie County in 1870 or be opened easily with Adobe Reader, a free program from adobe.com. There earlier; 1885 or earlier. and 1905 or earlier. would be no reduction of dues with this method, but it would help to reduce Contact the Society for applications. the society's paper and mailing costs. This may need board approval.

The Frontier Chronicle 1 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 ,, CANNON BOOMED TO HERALD ARRIVAL OF FIRST Tales, Tidbits & Topics PASSENGER TRAIN ON NORTH WESTERN By Bob Anderson, Editor Council Bluffs Nonpareil July 26, 1936 [email protected] Cannon boomed throughout the city. The lions, mergers, purchases and unions of noise struck the hills and reverberated up railroads under various corporate names and .. Do YOU RESEARCH your family and down the valley, filling the town with a over a long series of years. member's spouse's family? Or your tenseness it never before had known. By the date of its charter the Galena and family's neighbors? It's amazing how many brothers married sisters. Here in The day was Friday, Feb. 8, 1867. It was Chicago Union railroad is the parent "germ" the Midwest, many of our ancestors late in the afternoon. Ox teams filled the from whence the great corporation claims were farmers and, in my case, I've streets despite the winter weather. Bunting descent. found a fellow marrying a neighbor girl. hung from store fronts. Those who had flags, In the spring of 1867, following completion And then, lo and behold, his brother marries the girl's sister. They probably staffed them. ltwas a gala occasion. The of the line to Council Bluffs, work was started didn't get to town that often to meet mayor headed the procession as it walked by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River rail· "city" girls. In one family I found three down the street and at 4:20 p. m. it hap­ road connecting Missouri Valley Junction brothers marrying three sisters! pened. with Junction. Later the Sioux City ··SPEAKING OF NEIGHBORS, be Coming down the track, its locomotive and Pacific railroad started building from sure to check the various plat books belching smoke, the North Western railroad California Junction to Sioux City and the line now on line. If you go to http://www.historicmapworks.com/Sear brought the first through passenger train into was completed to Sioux City in February, ch/city. php ?query=Pottawattamie&State the city from Chicago. 1868. =IA&x=O&y=O you 'll find many for The Nonpareil of that date reports it thus: The line was also started toward Fremont, Pottawattamie County for various years. "The arrival of the first regular passenger Neb. In summer month trains were ferried It's a good way to see your family's neighbors, plus many of your extended train was marked by a joyous celebration. across the Missouri river. A temporary bridge family names. Just remember, the plat Cannon were fired and a long procession of was constructed over the ice for winter cross­ books are showing the owners, not nec­ wagons, artillery and citizens marched to the ing. essarily who lived there. station to greet the train. This line is now operated in conjunction Another resource for plat books is The University of Iowa Libraries - Iowa "Mayor Frank Street and other prominent with the North Western. The stock of the Digital Librarx at citizens addressed the assembly between Cedar Rapids railroads was purchased by http:/ /digital. lib. uiowa. edu/cdm/search/c selections by the band and the salutes of the the North Western in 1884 and the Cedar ollection/atlases cannon. Telegrams were sent to the mayors Rapids company had previously acquired the ··BE CAREFUL WHEN LOOKING at of Chicago and other eastern cities and many control of the Sioux City railroad. census records. The other day I took telegrams of congratulations were received." Minutes of the North Western railroad another look at the 1900 Census for Washington Twp., Cass Co., Iowa, and Thus was the east joined with the west, for reveal that in its eighth fiscal year-June 1, saw something I hadn't noticed before. the North Western's passenger train was the 1866, to May 31, 1867-stockholders were The entry for Julius and Rosa (Detmers) first to join the -a con­ advised of the construction of all of the rail­ KNOP shows Julius and his wife, chil­ nection which to this day still exists between road lines along the Missouri river which it dren and his mother-in-law. But under the last entry is Ida Caulitz and shows the two lines. "hoped would prove valuable feeders to the her as Julius' cousin. When I saw this The track reached Council Bluffs on Jan . road." before I didn't realize Ida was living 17, 1867. The passenger train arrived some The Sioux City road was now built from the with the Knops. It looked like the begin­ twenty days later. east bank of the Missouri river near "St. ning of the next entry and I ignored it. I've since researched the Caulitz family The first through train from Chicago on the John's Station, Iowa." This station is now to find it was actually Collatz and have Rock Island did not reach Council Bluffs until known as Missouri Valley. added a whole new line to my data. 5:45 p. m. on June 5, 1869, while the first It was expected to bring to the North West­ ··I WISH MORE OF MY IOWA through train on the Burlington arrived here ern road a large trade from "Dacotah and the ancestors had lived past 1925 . The 1925 on Jan . 18, 1870 and this train came via upper Missouri river" as well as from "Fort Iowa Census is such a great help in find­ Kansas City. Benton and the Montana region," as Sioux ing parents, as the second page of each City was to be "the steamboat point of depar­ record shows the parents of each person Railroad Is 100 Years Old. tures" for these far-off regions. enumerated. There are other clues here, The North Western railroad, also observ­ too; if the parent is still living, it shows Shortly after the North Western road ing its centennial this year received in July, their age at 1925. [[that's blank, it reached Council Bluffs, a car ferry was 1864, additional grants of land from congress could mean they died before 1925, placed in service across the Missouri river so although the person being enumerated and was authorized to build its line from Ce­ that the construction materials for the Union might not have known or remembered dar Rapids to Council Bluffs. This section of Pacific railroad could be carried without how old their parent was. the railroad at that time was known as the transfer from Chicago to the exact point on ··WHAT NAME DO I SEARCH? As Cedar Rapids and Missouri railroad. mentioned above, Caulitz was really the line where it was to be used. Collatz. Another family was Willms The construction of this line says the com­ when they arrived from Germany, but pany's minute books started at Boone in Hastened U. P. Construction. somewhere along the line it changed to December 1865. Two years were spent This connection hastened by many years Williams. I have to look for both when I pushing it on to Council Bluffs. the completion of the Union Pacific road . search newspaperarchive.com or ances­ The present North Western railroad is the Previously, all of the material had been tr y. ~m. outcome of a series constructions, consolida- HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! Continued on page 7

The Frontier Chronicle 2 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan· March 2013 The Friendship Food Train 1947

By Dorothy R. Scheele, creator of the Friendship Train web site, who has been researching and writing about the Friendship and Merci Trains since about 2000. Visit the website at http://www.thefriendshiptrainl947.org/index.htm

Very few people know about this Communism in Europe. He believed were three trains totaling 270 box­ small but fascinating piece of Ameri­ that the United States could surpass cars. The estimated worth was forty can history. The Friendship Train is the Communists in sending food to million dollars. unheralded in American history the desperate, hungry Europeans. In all aspects of the train's travel, Announcing his idea no money was ever spent: the food, of sending ·food the transportation by rail and truck, across the Atlantic in the loading of the boxcars and trucks, his broadcasts and the loading of the ship by the steve­ columns on October dores and the use of the ships was 11, 1947, Pearson free. asked Americans to Every package had this label: donate food from "All races and creeds make up the their homes, kitch­ vast melting pot of America, and in a ens, gardens, and democratic and Christian spirit of fields. His plea was good will toward men, we, the Ameri­ fantastically success­ can people, have worked together to ful. Town, cities, and bring this food to your doorsteps, states formed plans hoping that it will tide you over until to collect food and your own fields are again rich and send it to the Friend­ abundant with crops." ship Train. This train Also on every label were these books and virtually unknown to the was such an exciting and popular idea words, "This gift is sent to you by (a citizens of the United States. It is that competition among the commu­ tag which had these lines): 'first and never mentioned to elementary nities, counties, and states for having last name and address of donor."' school children and never referred to sent the largest contribution was part This message was written in Italian in advanced history books, neither of the work and also part of the fun. and French and printed beside the secondary nor collegial. Actually, there was no reward, but American flag. (It should be noted What is the Friendship Train? everyone wanted to be the top con­ that the Friendship Train had abso­ Where did it come from? Why did it tributor. lutely no connection with the Mar­ exist? Had it not been for the Friend­ Five weeks after Pearson's an­ shall Plan. The former was sponsored ship Train, the more well-known nouncement, November 7, 1947, the by the people, not the government.) Merci Train, albeit not that well Friendship Train began its unprece­ Pearson wanted to be certain that known either, never would have dented odyssey across our country, the Europeans knew unequivocally existed. These trains, which originat­ beginning in , where there the source of the food. In order to ed after World War II, created a was a terrific send-off, and ending in accomplish that objective, the unique historical link between the City with another extraordi­ Friendship Trains also carried tacks, United States and France and Italy. nary celebration. hammers, tapes, and nails so that The vision of the Friendship Train Although the train traveled continued next page appeared in American thought and through only eleven states, history on October 11, 1947, in the every state contributed by columns and broadcasts of Drew sending its boxcars or trains Pearson. This noted columnist, jour­ to meet the Friendship Train nalist, and nominee for the Nobel at a junction or by sending Peace Prize conceived the idea of the trucks to the train. train when in Europe. While there he Many communities not on noticed that the Communists were the original route insisted on being lauded and 'thanked' for their giving, thereby causing delays contributions of a few carloads of all along the journey. In fact, grain delivered to Europeans. The the enormity of the donations great fanfare celebrating these mea­ plus the mountainous terrain ger gifts rankled Pearson. The in the West caused the train to columnist loathed the thought of divide, and at its end, there

The Frontier Chronicle 3 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 Friendship Food Train Largest Food Contribution Is Made Here continued from page 2. Five Cars of Wheat Added to Friendship Train at Ceremonies they could display the banner of the cities and states which had donated a particular boxcar even though many of the cars already had them. He wanted absolutely no doubt that when the French and Italian trains and trucks transported the gift-laden boxcars, the source was the United States of America. Also, in keeping with his objective, European movie theaters ran newsreels taken in America which showed the Friend­ ship Train's cargo being loaded in numerous cities. Additionally, Pear­ son had sent a team of men in advance of the train so that they could foil Communist interruptions of the distributions and also curtail black market activity as much as pos­ sible. Distribution of the food was accomplished by both French and ACCEPTS FOOD CONTRIBUTIONS - Drew Pearson, left center, Washington columnist American organizations working who thought up the Friendship Food Train idea, accepts waybills of five carloads of wheat, plus $912 in cash, fro m Wilham Keenan of Council Bluffs, at ceremonies here Wednesday there. Pearson appointed American night. At left is: John Hymans of Hull, nmihwestern Iowa chairman; and at right, L. C. Peter­ Aid to France, Inc., to lead and son, Stanton fanner. When the train left here Thursday it carried 62 cars of food. oversee the work, choosing this agen­ cy because it had, since the encl of past the Palazzio Venezia and the Col­ Council Bluffs Nonpareil, World War II, been sending vital iseum to the Campidoglio. Four November 13. 1947 supplies to France and thus was Friendship Trains went through Italy: familiar with distribution work. from Rome to Milan to the Yugoslave After receiving "the largest contribu­ In both Italy and France the distri­ border at Gorizia; and from Genoa to tion yet" at Council Bluffs Wednesday bution trains were called Friendship Venice, and south from Naples night, the Friendship food train of 62 Trains. The French trains stopped in through southern Italy; and Palermo loaded cars moved out of the city at 8:30 Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, to Sicily. a. m. Thursday for its tour through Iowa. Brest and Lorient. Local ceremonies Pearson traveled on the train going F.ive carloads of wheat, plus contribu­ celebrated the train wherever it to Rome. He received thrilling recep­ tions of canned milk, soup and other stopped. France ran ten trains tions, finding very excited people in foodstuffs from Clarinda and Sioux City, throughout the country. Local cere­ every town. were connected to the two-section train . monies were held wherever the train However, the best receptions, Pear­ stopped. son declared, were in the smaller Four carloads of wheat came from In Paris about 50 trucks with the towns they entered after leaving Council Bluffs and western Iowa contrib­ foodstuffs drove down the Champs Milan. The enthusiasm was so high utors. The fifth car from Tulare, S. D., Elysees past the Arc de Triomphe-­ that he ordered the engineer to stop at donors. the first occasion in peacetime when every station where there were peo­ The goodwill train , with 57 carloads of trucks were permitted on this famous ple, regardless of whether the stop food, pulled into the North Western sta­ thoroughfare--then down Rue de had been planned. This order tion here shortly after 10 p. m. Three Rivoli to City Hall. The Mayor of required the train to stop almost giant searchlights probed the wintry sky, Paris, Pierre De Gaulle, brother of the every 15 minutes, and even though announcing the !rain's arrival all the way General, greeted Pearson and his these towns had not yet received any from Omaha, where it picked up one committee. After both spoke briefly food, the people were really happy to to the large crowd, the Mayor provid­ see Pearson and the committee. In carload of flour. ed a sumptuous repast for the Ameri­ Gorizia 10,000 greeted the train. At 500 Greet Train. can benefactors. Udine the crowd was so large that Pearson stated that although the Pearson had to go to the town square A shivering, stomping crowd of 500 Italians were at first not as familiar to speak. greeted the train with cheers to the ac­ with the Friendship Train as the Pearson's original thought was that companiment of the Iowa Corn song French, at the end of the experience he could win friends for the United played by a combination of Thomas Jef­ they were probably even more exu­ States through food and American ferson high school pep bandsters and berant than the French. In Rome 150 generosity. the VFW band. truats drove from the railrdad station He had not been wrong. • Continued on next page

The Frontier Chronicle 4 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 Floodlights provided by the Council zens can do this ," he said. "You may be Browsing Old Cemeteries Bluffs fire department illuminated the very proud of yourselves ." What fascinating things may be found on Other dignitaries who spoke included waiting four box cars from western Iowa old tombstones, including: and the train as it pulled in. George W. Welsh, mayor of Grand Rap­ A KSWI sound truck pulled alongside ids, Mich., who is president of the U. S. On the grave ofEzekial Aikle in East the brightly decorated Pullmans and cars Conference of Mayors. He is accompany­ Dalhousie Cemetery, Nova Scotia: of the Friendship train and ceremonies ing the train on its trip from Los Angeles "Here lies Ezekial Aikle, Age 102. Only were held from Its top. to New York. The Good Die Young." The four western Iowa carloads of Two representatives from the local high ***** wheat were presented In turn by John schools appeared briefly in the ceremo­ In a Ribbesford, England , cemetery: Hymans of Hull; W. M Keenan of Council nies: Don Ryan of Thomas Jefferson and "A nna Wallace - The children ofI srael Bluffs, chairman for southwest Iowa; E. Janet Supernois of Abraham Lincoln. wanted bread, and Th e Lord sent them H. Spelman, Sr. , treasurer; and Mayor Tells of Food Need. manna. Clark Wallace Wanted a wife, Phil Minner. L. C. Peterson, Stanton, one of the and the Devil sent him Anna. " The northwestern Iowa towns were farmers from Iowa who recently made a ***** Hull, Boyden, Sioux Center, Rock Valley. trip through Europe, told the crowd of the In a Ruidoso, New Mexico, cemetery: Stanton, Odebodt and Orange City. importance the food would make to peo­ "Here lies Johnny Yeast ... Pardon me Mayor Minner also presented the car ple in Europe. For not rising. " from South Dakota. Before the train was hauled to the Hymans said $8,000 of the contribu­ North Western yards for its overnight ***** tions from northwestern Iowa came from stay, a ton of packaged foods from In a Uniontown, , ceme­ a combined city and farm population of Clarinda was loaded aboard the tery: not over 10,000 persons. "miscellany" car of the Friendship train . "Here lies the body ofJonathan Blake. Credit to All. Another food .contribution was made Stepped on the gas instead ofthe brake." "Western Iowa has done what I at first Thursday morning before the train depart­ ***** thought was the impossible," Keenan told ed by a Sioux City American Legion post. Drew Pearson, Washington columnist The food was brought from Sioux City in a In a Silver City, , cemetery: who thought up the Friendship train idea. converted truck resembling a 40 and 8 "Here lays Th e Kid. We planted him "This is the largest single contribution railroad car of World War I days. raw. He was quick on the trigger but we have as yet received ," Pearson said . The first section of the train, with 45 slow on the draw. " As he was handed $912 in cash­ cars, left here at 12:57 a. m. , and will go ***** balance left after purchase of the direct to Chicago. The second section, A lawyer's epitaph in England : wheat-Pearson gave credit for the suc­ with 37 cars, left at 8:57 a. m. cess of the train idea to "a whale of a lot In its 36 hour trip across Iowa, the "Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest of American people who joined in to put Friendship train was scheduled to stop at lawyer, And that is Strange. " this idea across." Boone at 1:3 0 p.m., Ames at 3:30, Mar­ ***** When informed later that contributions shalltown at 5:15, Cedar Rapids at 8:30 John Penny's epitaph in the Wimbome, are still being received - though the and Clinton at Midnight. England , cemetery: drive is over-Pearson returned the mon­ Reports from local sources along this "Reader, ifc ash thou art in want ofan y, ey to local officials. When all funds are route indicated that by the time the train Dig 6 f eet deep and thou wilt find a received, a check will be mailed to the leaves Clinton at 10:30 a.m. Friday, 20 or Penny." Friendship train group for purchase of more loads of wheat, oats, corn, flour, ***** additional food. Some $2,000 additional milk and corn sugar from all sections of is expected here. Iowa will have been added to its load. In a cemetery in Hartscombe, England : Pearson said movies were taken to The official state reception for the good "On the 22nd ofJu ne, Jonathan Fiddle show the people in Europe. "We will will special will take place at Ames when went Out oftun e." make sure they understand this is from Gov. Robert D. Blue boards the train to ***** the hearts of the American people." take part in the food loading ceremony there and sign the scroll which other gov­ Anna Hopewell's grave in Enosburg French Ambassador Speaks. Falls, Vermont: Henri Bonnet, the French ambassador ernors have been autographing. Final list of donors from southwestern "Here lies th e body ofo ur Anna, Done to to the U. S who had flown from Washing­ death by a banana. It wasn't the fruit that ton , D.C., to meet the train at Omaha and Iowa will be published in The Nonpareil within a few days when the committee laid her low, But the skin ofth e thing Council Bluffs, spoke briefly. that made her go. " • "Only communities formed of free citi- completes its work. •

The Frontier Chronicle 5 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 Ghost towns of Pottawattamie County from lmp//www.iowaghosttowns.com/pottawattamie_county.litm!

AMERICUS. A place on the Missouri River a ELLISDALE. A post office from 1856 to PAClFlC. The name the old settlers called little below the mouth of the Boyer River, as 1857 about two miles south of where later Avoca for a short time when it was established shown on maps of the early 1860's, and on stood Crescent City. in 1868. maps a few years later,. in the northwestern EMINENCE. A village laid out in 1875 in the PARMA. Hamlet formerly called Bristol (see part of Hazel Dell Township on Pigeon Creek. southern part of section 28, Grove Township. above). Parma was also the name of the post ARMOUR. A post office (1883-1911) in the See Wheeler's Grove and Wheeler, below. office, 1873 to 1882. See Wooster below. southeastern part of Hardin Township. FRENCH. Listed as a post office in Potta­ PIGEON. A post office (1889-1902) in the BIG GROVE. The early name of the hamlet wattamie County from 1896 to 1900, but the central pati of Boomer Township. that later became the town of Oakland. Big location not found. POTTAWATTAMIE. A place in the eastern Grove was the name of the post office from HARRISON. A post office (1879-84) near the part of Norwalk Township on Keg Creek, as 1856 to 1881. southwest comer of Boomer Township. shown on maps of 1868. BLAIR. A post office in the early I 860's in IOLA. Laid out as a town in 1856 in the PRAIRIE FLOWER. Listed in 1854 as a the southeastern part of Washington Township southwest corner of Valley Township and post office in Pottawattamie County, but the on Silver Creek. northwest corner of Center Township, but location not found. BOOMER GROVE. A post office from 1863 never built up. REELS. A post office (1884-1904) in section to 1864 in the central part of Boomer Town­ KANE. The name of the post office at 6, Hazel Dell Township. ship. Kanesville, which see below, from 1848 to SCOTTSWOOD. A post office from 1880 to BOTNA. The name of the present town of 1852, when it was changed to Council Bluffs. 1886 in Garner Township. Avoca in the beginning, 1868 to 1869. KANESVILLE. The name from 1848 to 1853 SIL VER CREEK. A post office ( 1852-56) in BOYER. Listed as a post office in Potta­ of the present city of Council Bluffs. Also see the central part of Silver Creek Township. wattamie County in 1855, and believed to Miller's Hollow below, SNAP. A post office (1881-85) in Hardin have been in Crescent Township. KEG CREEK. Listed as a post office Township. BIUSTOL. A place shown on maps of the late in ,Pottawattamie County from 1874 to 1899, TAYLOR STATION. A post office (1874- 1850's about two miles north of Big Grove, with some omissions, but its location not 83) in the central part of Washington Town­ which see above, on the east side of West found. ship. It ran as Taylor from 1883-1907. Nishnabotna River, near what was later Par­ KEMLING. A post office (1894-1901) in the TRADERS POINT. In the 1850's it is sa id to ma, which see below. so utheastern part of Grove Township. have been in the northwest quarter of section BULLOCK GROVE. A settlement on the KEOWN. A post office (1896-1902) in the 35, township 74, range 44, on the bank of the north half of the northeast quarter of the east western part of York Township on Keg Creek. Missouri River, about half a mile north of the section 25 and the south half of the southeast LIMA. Fonner name of the present railroad Mills County line, but maps after 1870 show it quarter of the east section 24, Lewis Town­ station of Chautauqua some three miles east of then as being a short distance south of the ship, found there when the original survey was Council Bluffs (shown on maps of 1881. county line. See Mills County list. It is listed made in 1852. LIVING SPIUNG. A village in the south­ as a post office in Pottawattamie County in CARTERSVILLE. A village of about 200 western part of Silver Creek Township. Post 1852. people found by th e surveyors who ran the office, 1875-1908, except some suspensions. UNION. A place one mile east of Cartersville, original lines in 1851. It was about three miles LOSH'S MILLS. Hamlet on West Nislmabot­ which see above, as appears on maps of 1868 east of Kanesville, which see below, and just na River near the present town of Carson. Post and later. east of Mosquito Creek, and was shown on office, 1871-75 and from 1878 to 1880. WALNUT CREEK STATION. A post office maps as late as 1869. MACEDONIA. The original hamlet of Mace­ (1870-75) at or near where now is the town of CLAYTON. The name of the present town of donia was on the banks of the West Nish­ Walnut. Macedonia for a brieftime of its first exist­ nabotna river, about three-quarters of a mile WALNUT GROVE. A place near the north­ ence, as shown on maps of 1887. west of the present town of that name. It exist­ west corner of Hazel Dell Township, as shown COLD SPRING. A post office for a time in ed from about 1851 to 1880. on maps of 1856 to 1862. the 1850's in eastern part of Wright Township. MILLER'S HOLLOW. The name of the WA VE LAND. A post office ( 1870-81) on the COUNCIL BLUFFS. Listed in the U.S. hamlet which a little later became Kanesville, south line ofsection 26, Waveland Township. Official Register as a post office from 1851 to which see above. WHEELER'S GROVE. A post office at the l 852 when the office was changed to Trader's MORTON. Listed as a post office in Potta­ village of Eminence, which see above, from Point, which see below. This was before the wattamie County from 1889 to 1898, but the 1866 to 1883 when the name of the post office name of Council Bluffs was given the present location not found. was changed to Wheeler, and continued to city of that name. NANSON. Listed as a post office in Potta­ l 90 l. The village also took the name of COUNCIL POINT. A place on maps from wattamie County from 1888 to 1895, but the Wheeler about the same time as did the post 1855 to 1868 near the shore of Lake Manawa location not found. office. (southwest quarter of section 15, township 74, . Listed as a post office in Potta­ WHIPPLE. A post office (1876-86) in the range 44), some three miles south of the busi­ wattamie County from 1849 to 1850, but the central pati of Wright Township. ness section of Council Bluffs. location not found. The office was changed in WILLOW. A hamlet and post office (1860- CRESCENT CITY. About one mile east of 1850 to Council Bluffs, which see above. 66) in the central part of Rockford Township the present village of Crescent. It was very NEW TOWN. Laid out in about l 856 in the on the Boyer River. prosperous in 1857 and was a rival of Council southeast quarter of section 21 , Knox Town­ WOOSTER. Laid out in 1855 in the south­ Bluffs, but only for a short time. ship, just east of and adjacent to Wooster (see western part of section 21, Knox Township. A DESERET. Listed as a post office in Potta­ below). Post office, 1856-65. A prosperous little later New Town (see above) was laid out wattamie County from 1854 to 1855, but the place in its day. adjacent and to the east of Wooster. Later location not found. NISHNA. A hamlet on the West Nishnabotna Parma (see above) occupied a location at or DOWNSVILLE. A hamlet in the northeastern River near New Town, which see above. Post near where 'Wooster had stood. • pa1i~f section 31 , Norwalk Township, on office, 1866-69. Published with permission .fi'om Mosquito Creek. Post office 1873-90. iowaghosttowns.co111

The Frontier Chronicle 6 Vol. 19, No. 1 Jan - March 2013 North Western one-story wooden affair built by the Galena Now Has 10,000 Miles. Continued from page 2 and Chicago Union railroad in the fall of Today the Chicago and North Western 1848. It was added onto during the next few system has in operation more than 10,000 hauled overland by teams. On May 10, 1869, years and stood near the spot where the miles of railroad in , Iowa, Wisconsin, the last rail was laid by the Union Pacific Merchandise mart, the world's largest build­ North and South. Dakokta, Minnesota, Michi­ west of Ogden, , connecting with the ing, now stands. gan, and Nebraska, Through its Central Pacific railroad, and for the first time In 1864 a consolidation was made of the own line and connections , it serves most of in history through passenger service from Galena road and the Chicago and North the west and northwest and parts of Canada, Chicago to the Pacific coast was possible. Western road, bringing the roads together The Chicago and North Western railway It was on Jan. 18, 1836, that the Galena with a total mileage of 860 miles of track. operates several crack trains to the Pacific and Chicago Union railroad was incorporated This gave the road a line from Chicago to the coast-the San Francisco Overland Limited, by special charter of the Illinois legislature Mississippi west, a branch from what is now Los Angeles Limited, , Pacific and authorized to build a railroad into the West Chicago to Freeport, a line from Chica­ Limited. and the , City of Port­ prairie country and to the Mississippi river go to Madison, a line from Rockford to Ke­ land, City of San Francisco and City of Los near the "lead mines at Galena, Ill., and nosha and a connecting line at Janesville on Angeles. Dubuque, la." the Chicago-Madison line running to Green The first agent for the railroad here was J. Because Chicagoans could not finance the Bay, Wis. W. McKenzie. He was appointed Aug. 31, venture, it was given up and work was not The North Western introduced the first 1882, and served for three months. He was resumed until 1847, when seven miles of railway mail car in 1864 when George B. followed by Fred B. Warner, Milton J. Altroth track were placed under construction. Armstrong induced the Galena and Chicago and J. F. Montgomery. Due to the impossibility of getting iron rails Union to rebuild one of its baggage cars into In 1914 ticket and freight agents were from England in 1848 because of a tight a mail car. In May, 1867. this actually went established separately and J. F. Montgomery money situation, strap rail was employed in into service. was named freight agent and W. B. Rich­ the first construction. Ten miles of track to The first regular service to the Pacific ards, ticket agent. Des Plaines was completed by Dec., 1848. coast, and the first service ever given to the Montgomery served until Nov. 1, 1929, The Pioneer was the first locomotive Pacific coast, was established in 1887 with a when Joseph H. Daggett was named. On bought by the road and was the first locomo­ change at Council Bluffs. This, of course, Jan. 29, 1935, Daggett was also named ticket tive in the city of Chicago and in the west. It was in conjunction with the Union Pacific and agent. was placed in service on the road in October, the now extinct Central Pacific. On Nov. 17, Other ticket agents serving here include H. 1848, making it the run from Chicago west to 1889, through service without a change was B. Eller and Montgomery. what is now known as Maywood, Ill. This inaugurated between Chicago and Portland Station earnings in 1872 were $68,762.36. locomotive has been turned over to the mu­ and San Francisco with the institution of the In 1907 they were $124,023.66 and in 1935, seum of science and industry at Chicago. Overland Limited. $245,142.10 . • The first railroad depot in Chicago was a MILWAUKEE LINE ARRIVED IN 1882 Railroad "Slanguage" Council Bluffs Nonpareil -July 26, 1936 From out of the east in 1882 the Milwaukee railroad came to Council Bluffs- thirty Railroad workers had a language of years after the first section of its line had been laid In Wisconsin. their own, a "slanguage" which Oddly enough, the road now has 1,800 miles of track in Iowa-a greater mileage was vitally expressive to anyone than it has in any other state. "The Milwaukee" is the original name of the company, who worked on the rails. A "hash apparently given by those men who in 184 7 obtained a charter for building a railroad slinger" was a waiter or waitress. between Milwaukee and Waukesha, Wis. After building that first small line in Wisconsin, the Milwaukee later acquired con­ Here's how they would call in their structed line, reaching Savanna, Ill., by 1862. From there the line was extended to food orders: Paralta, Ia., between 1870 and 1872, there crossing the line from Farley, south, to Caboose and two workers - ham & Cedar Rapids, which then was the major railroad center in Iowa. [n 1880 track was laid over Iowa's rolling prairie between Byron and Kittredge, Ill., eggs (eggs easy or over) thus completing the line between Chicago and Marion. Same with "shuffle the deck" - The railroad continued its construction efforts westward. In 1882 the line made the ham & eggs scrambled connection with Council Bluffs, and although not the first railroad to operate into the city, it drew its fair share of the early business. Chunk of slab - pie F. A. Nash was general agent here, while Mark A. Upton was the ticket agent. C.H. Eye opener - coffee Stockwell was roadmaster; Dan Case, yardmaster; David Twamley, car shop foreman, and M. R. Chapman, roundhouse foreman. The dispatcher was J. M. Bunker, Order from Dublin - potatoes with headquarters at Perry. . Alexander Mitchell was president of the Milwaukee when the road reached Council Staff of life - bread Bluffs. S. S. Merrill was the general manager and W. C. Van Home was general Grave yard stew - milk toast superintendent. A. V. H. Carpenter was general passenger agent. All were of Chicago. Last year the Milwaukee employed an average of 138 persons in Council Bluffs. 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If this were in color, this map would look like it had the measles. In a Google search box, enter "cemeteries in Pottawattamie County, Iowa." A map comes up looking like this. Each dot is a cemetery; hover your mouse over it and it will tell you the name of the cemetery. C lick on the "dot" and another small window opens which gives you more info rmation about the cemetery. If you click on "Satellite," an image like those on the right appear. And you can zoom in or out which gives you a sense of where the cemetery is actually located. Of course you can search for any location you want. And you can search for other things, too, like churches or libraries. G ive it a try. Play with it. We'll have mo re Google tricks for yo u in our next issue.

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