Terre Haute, only the cemetery left. Just south of Decatur, west of Davis City and north of Lamoni. If you look hard enough you may find some foundations of the houses in the pasture of our neigbors. The cemetery was fun to scare people at though.
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Yetter in Sac County. GRain elevator, locker and 5 or 6 houses.
Claim to fame is there is a really old, cool 3 story house taht loks really out of place. It is empty but you can tell it was very expensive in its day. I was told that it was a brothel / casino used by Chicago's wealthy (and gansters) for overnight stop on their way to Veags and the West Coast back in the 30s and 40s.
That always made sense to me because it is close to both Highways 20 and 30 and is about a days drive from Chicago.
Claim to fame is there is a really old, cool 3 story house taht loks really out of place. It is empty but you can tell it was very expensive in its day. I was told that it was a brothel / casino used by Chicago's wealthy (and gansters) for overnight stop on their way to Veags and the West Coast back in the 30s and 40s.
That always made sense to me because it is close to both Highways 20 and 30 and is about a days drive from Chicago.
I grew up about 2 miles from Fiscus, IA which has a population of 9 in the summer and 4 in the winter and no paved roads.
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&g...code_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQ8gEwAA
I also grew up near Botna, IA which isn't much better.
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I also grew up near Botna, IA which isn't much better.
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Totally know where Conover is at. Have some college friends that grew up on Conover Rd.
Troy in the southeast part of the state, on our family trips to visit grandma in Illinois we used to go through it. It was a detour off of highway 2. I was still young so just remember it being very small.
Any discussion of this nature would be incomplete without mentioning Colwell and Bassett. The Colwell Tap and The Shed are two of the finer establishments in Iowa, no doubt.
Orchard was mentioned by somebody in the Enterprise thread. It is home to one of the coolest tornado pics ever taken imo.
Orchard was mentioned by somebody in the Enterprise thread. It is home to one of the coolest tornado pics ever taken imo.
What's interesting about the school situation, is that due to Riceville's location in comparison to other school districts, and how it straddles the Mitchell/Howard County line, its not going to be feasible to consolidate w/any one of the surrounding districts.
If they consolidate with Howard/Winneshiek (Cresco), you would have kids in NE Mitchell County going to school 40 miles away when they could be going to school 20 miles away. You have the same problem for kids in Howard County if it were to consolidate with Osage or St. Ansgar in Mitchell County.
What makes the most logistical sense is to split the district 3 ways between Cresco, Osage, and St. Ansgar.
You should note if the town is on a highway. Most of the smaller highways have google street view, it's kind of interesting to view the smaller more abandoned places.
Ware, Iowa in Pocahontas county a few houses and a mechanics shop. Most of it was destroyed by a tornado about a year ago
Mt. Etna, Iowa. A mile or two off of Highway 148. Right between Massena and Corning.
Gravity, Iowa.
Gravity, Iowa.
