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Pioneers and Towns: Muscatine County’s Early Settlement
Muscatine County began with Benjamin Nye in 1834 at Pine Creek Montpelier. Early settlers included the Nyes Thorntons and Casey, who helped form Bloomington later renamed Muscatine. The county’s growth surged to 1,942 by 1840 with mills, a court house, and a move to Muscatine by 1849.
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Muscatine County
Benjamin Nye
Mississippi
Pine Creek
Montpelier Township
Blackhawk
United States
Nye
Err Thornton
Stephen Nye
Montpelier
Err
Lott
James Thornton
Seventy-Six
John
W. A. Shew
Grandview Township
Mr. Shew
J. D. McCully
Thompson Band
Gus
Joe
Shew
Farnham
Rock Island
Nyes
Thorntons
James W. Casey
John Vanatta
John McGrew
Arthur Washburn
Eli Reynolds
Casey
Bloomington
Muscatine
Newbury
Broadway
Col. Vanada
Territorial Legislature of
Wisconsin
Louisa
Musqui
Charles H. Fish
Courthouse Square
Joe White
Barkalow
Mad Creek
Charles A., A. Q
D.R. Warfield
Ben’ Matthews
William Gordon
Eli Roberts
John Lawson
Geneva
Young
James Grant