Pine Mills and New Era the Muscatine County Landmark
Historic Pine Mills near Pine Creek in Muscatine County features the aging mill erected in 1850 and tied to pioneer Benjamin Nye. The nearby New Era project, a church and social center funded by Wm. Zeigler of New York, embodies socialist ideas and serves as a rural community hub.
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Muscatine County
Pine Mills
Pine Creek
Iowa
Benjamin Nye
Muscatine
Graham Taylor
New Era at Pine Mills Promotes Community Growth
The Brandt family and Mr Ziegler foster a social institution beside a church with a parsonage shaped by Brandt capital. Rev N H Weeks leads a day and night school while a library and children's entertainments draw crowds. A biweekly summer brass band concert enhances community life and Pine Mills trades mainly with Muscatine.
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Clara
Emma Brandt
Brandts
Zeigler Brandt
Amherst College
Graham Taylor
Chicago
Weeks
New Era
Sweetland Center And Its History
Sweetland Center sits about six miles north of Muscatine with a small community economy centered in a general store post office building. The area features a Methodist church led by Rev Crull, a strong M B A lodge, a good school, and farming activity shipping hogs and cattle through Muscatine. The oldest resident is Mr Van Camp who arrived before the locality was known as Sweetland Center.
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WM. Huttig
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D. S. McDermid
W. M. Wadsworth
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North Side Cash Grocery
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