Need New Washington Directory For 1948 Population Insight
A column urges publishing a new Washington city directory in 1948 to provide up-to-date resident information and an unofficial census, comparing 1940 and 1948 population estimates and noting the 1941 directory’s accuracy and its two useful features. It discusses wartime delays and names common in the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington City
Raymond Holgate, Jr
T. J. Rapp Directory Service
Directory Names Appear Across Bell Baker and More
The passage lists frequent surnames in the directory including Bell Baker Booth Caldwell Dawson Hayes Hays Nicola Palmer Patterson Tucker and White. It highlights common family names appearing on the directory pages and suggests a broad cross section of households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell
Baker
Booth
Caldwell
Dawson
Hayes
Hays
Nicola
Palmer
Patterson
Tucker
White
Street names change roots of Washington’s avenues and streets
Residents recall the city council’s long ago change to the current naming system. East and west streets became streets with north south routes as avenues. North of the square uses numbers for streets while south uses presidents. Avenues east of the square are numbered and west are lettered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
City Street Names Revisited in 1943 Ordinances
A discussion notes the 1943 city council ordinances that list present street names and former names but do not specify when changes were adopted. The text references block 18 as the Public Square later known as Central Park, mentions past ownership questions with the courthouse situated there, and observes most streets around the square kept old names while others received new ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dinances
Central Park
Street name changes map city grid the old to new
The article details a renaming of streets in a town from Madison Street northward and various east west segments. It lists sequences north to the city limits including Second Street formerly Madison, and streets such as North Fourth Railroad High Thompson Young Center Avenue A and Avenue B. It notes south of the square Jefferson South Brighton Boulevard and other renamed or unnamed streets, with west of Marion Avenue named First Second Jackson School and others. East of Iowa Avenue the names include Green Iron First Second Third Easton. (Continued on page 5)
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Street
Madison Street
Fourth Railroad
High
Thompson, Young, Center
Jefferson
Brighton Boulevard
Marion Avenue
Jackson
School
Iowa Avenue
Green
Iron
Easton
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa
Portland Cement Association
Hubbel Bidg
Des Moines
Bruce Cowden
Journal
Smith
Jones
Brown
Stewart and Miller
Anderson
Johnson and Johnston
Wilson
Thompson
Davis
Ven Ujomey
Goodyear Wested
the Evening Journal
Washington, Iowa
Elder, Shannon <& Co
Shannon
Dave R. Elder
Bruce C. Cowden
Charles Morris
W. J. Shannon
Max Marble
United Press
Inland Bally Press Agss
Towa Daily Press
Towa Daily Press Ass'n
Iowa Press Ass'n
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Eeetve
Eee
Doan
Louis J. Kehoe
Jeffrey Bldg
Theodore B. Bailey
Edmund D. Morrison, Jr
Morrison Building
S. W. Livingston
Robert Day
W. Main
George F. Morrison
G. Giefford Morrison
J. C. Penney Co
Paul V. Shearer
Court House
Wendell L. Shaffer
Hotel Washington
Optometrists
Lemmon
John W. Lemmon Lyes
East Side Square
DR. P
Ee Osteopathic
F. G. Livesay
D. C
Spinal Distortion
Mortons. Vk
Oolzeo
Don Onisomery Lind
Brown ‘Stoe Oxford
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!