bigpigeon.us webpage Big Pigeon > Big Pigeon Vicinity Towns > Lost Locales, updated 13 Mar 2020.
Below is some information about locales in the Big Pigeon area, such as rural post offices, that have faded from our collective memory.
Below are excerpts from the 1884 Iowa Gazetteer for some of these locales. Pigeon was not yet established and I have been unable to find an entry for Yorkshire.
Below is some information about locales in the Big Pigeon area, such as rural post offices, that have faded from our collective memory.
- Downsville was located along Mosquito Creek between Weston and Underwood in southwestern Norfolk Township. Only the cemetery survives. (post office 1873-1890)
- Harrison was a post office on Loveridge Axtell's farm along North Pigeon Creek in southwestern Boomer Township. It closed in 1884 in favor of the more conveniently-located Reels post office. (post office 1879-1884)
- Pigeon was a post office and general store in central Boomer Township. It closed with the advent of Rural Free Delivery in the area. (post office 1889-1902)
- Reels lay along Pigeon Creek in northwestern Hazel Dell Township. (post office 1884-1904)
- Unionburg, located in Union Township, Harrison County, was first settled in 1850 by Samuel Wood.
- Yorkshire, a village once located in southern Washington Township, Harrison County, was on the Milwaukee Railroad between Neola and Persia.
Below are excerpts from the 1884 Iowa Gazetteer for some of these locales. Pigeon was not yet established and I have been unable to find an entry for Yorkshire.
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Sources for Big Pigeon's Lost Locales webpage:
- The webpage heading map showing Pottawattamie County streams is excerpted from https://www.iowadot.gov/research/reports/Year/2003andolder/fullreports/HR-29%20FINAL%20Drainage%20Areas%20of%20Iowa%20Streams.pdf