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Sioux Co. abandoned towns
bridgebum1
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Posted: 3 Jun 2008 8:10PM GMT
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Fowler
Can anyone tell me where the village of
Townsend
was located? I have a couple 1900
FOWLER
census records that were enumerated in that town, but I cannot find any reference to its former location. I would like to pinpoint it on a map. Thanks!
Gene
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cow22
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Posted: 6 Jun 2008 1:10AM GMT
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As best I can tell,
Townsend
was never a town. A lady named
Adeline
Townsend
ran a rural postoffice out of her house in the NW 1/4 of sec 31 in 25 N 57 W sometime in the 1910/1920s. There were quite a few country postoffices in the homestead era,very few attained the status of "town". cow22
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Posted: 6 Jun 2008 1:57AM GMT
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Thanks very much! I'm sure this must be the case.
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