Lime Creek Township Early Settlement and Legacy
Lime Creek township in northwest Washington County includes all of township 77, range 9 and parts of range 8. Settled as early as 1839 by William Davidson Warthan McFarland M Hull and David McFarland, with others arriving in 1840 and later. Wassonville Dayton and Wellman emerge as towns with a railroad era fate, Wassonville hosting the first underground railroad line in 1856 and Dayton fading after the 1854 railroad expansion, shifting prosperity to Wellman. Dr James Waters and early pioneers shaped the community with the first marriage, birth, and school efforts noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lime Creek Township
English River
Lime Creek
Washington County
William Davidson
Warthan McFarland
M Hull
David McFarland
W. L. Hewet
James Waters
Benjamin Parker
C. Waters
Isaac Leighton
S. A
Indiana
Kansas
Mr. Nichols
Joseph Wasson
Nancy Pinkerton
Wassonville
Dayton
Iowa City and Western Railway
Wellman
Republican Party Born in Crawfordsville Iowa in 1854
An Iowa reminiscence argues the Republican party originated in Crawfordsville during a February 1854 meeting in the Seceder Church. Key figures include Sam Russel Oscar Howe and Sarah Crawford, with the House of All Nations hosting the resolutions and the Under-Ground Railway link noted. The account emphasizes Crawfordsville’s early anti slavery stance and local loyalty.
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Congress
Ripon
Wiconsin
Jackson
Michigan
Live Oaks
Crawfordsville
Iowa
Sam’l Russel
Maj. Rankin
Matthew Moorhead
Robt. Young
Samuel Howe
Oscar
Mount Pleasant
Joseph Miles
Howes
House of All Nations
Oscar Howe
Sarah Crawford
Republican Party
Nea
Sjsaac Crawford
Cholera Epidemic Hits Brighton in 1854
In July 1854 Brighton faced a month long cholera outbreak at an average of one death daily. The first victim, a Trine child from Ohio, died after exposure during a boat passage. A Mt. Pleasant death followed, with victims deteriorating within hours. Remedies were limited and burials began in rough boxes until a lime kiln and city sanitation halted further deaths.
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Brighton
Wm. Trine
Ohio
Samuel Garrett
Mt. Pleasant
Geo. Trine
Pioneer Woman Remembers Indians and Town’s Early Days
Mrs. G W Corbin recalls life south of Washington around 100 years ago. She recalls Indian visits, a log cabin home, a one room church at Eureka, tin lamps, feather beds and crowded beds when ministers stayed. West Main street was timbered, a small Malins store existed, and the first Methodist church stood nearby. She will be 99 in August and notes people today would not know how it used to be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. W. Corbin
West Main Street
Eureka
Mrs. Corbin
West Main
Washington
Lemmon Pharmacy
Malins
Corbin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Wassonville Station
Underground
Iowa City
Oskaloosa
Woodin
United States
Wassoonville
Fowever
Claims
C. A. Boice, M. D
the Observer
Sam Russel
Crawfordseville
Samuel Russell
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