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Amund was a rural
A post office operated in Amund from 1888 to 1907.(3 April 1907)
Amund Office May Close
, ''Forest City Summit'' The community was named for postmaster Amund A. Fosness, who came to the US from Norway in 1867, and settled in Iowa. It had a skimming station, store, and blacksmith shop, among other similar concerns. The community was reported by the '' Forest City Summit'' to be prosperous, and there were plans for a religious periodical to be published in the community. A school was located a mile north of the store.(27 November 1980)
Early post offices dotted Winnebago County
, ''The Forest City Summit'', p. A-13(3 March 1897)
Amund is Prosperous
, ''Winnebago Summit'' Amund's milk station used large volume separators to skim off cream, and was consolidated into the Thompson Cooperative Creamery in 1897. Amund's population, in 1902, was 22. The community was meant to serve the farming area, and the lack of a railroad led to its dissolution. The local ''Forest City Summit'' newspaper reported in 1955 that the former location was still known as Amund corner. It noted that early settlers remembered Fourth of July celebrations at Amund with baseball games and bowery dances.(28 July 1955)
Ancestors Retain Eden Farms
, ''Forest City Summit'' In 1976, the '' Mason City Globe-Gazette'' named Amund among the eleven abandoned towns in Winnebago County, the others being Benson Grove, Deering, Delano, Grytte, Hollandale, Mount Valley, Norman, Ratna, Steen, and Tweeten.
unincorporated community
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in Eden Township, Winnebago County, Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
, United States. Founded in the late 1800s, the community was considered prosperous in the early 20th century, but the population remained small. By the 1970s, the town was one of 11 abandoned communities in Winnebago County.
Geography
Amund is located along county highways A16 and R34. The community is in Eden Township northwest of the Good Neighbors Marsh Wildlife Management Area. The community was in the northwest corner of section 22 of Eden Township.History
A post office operated in Amund from 1888 to 1907.(3 April 1907)Amund Office May Close
, ''Forest City Summit'' The community was named for postmaster Amund A. Fosness, who came to the US from Norway in 1867, and settled in Iowa. It had a skimming station, store, and blacksmith shop, among other similar concerns. The community was reported by the '' Forest City Summit'' to be prosperous, and there were plans for a religious periodical to be published in the community. A school was located a mile north of the store.(27 November 1980)
Early post offices dotted Winnebago County
, ''The Forest City Summit'', p. A-13(3 March 1897)
Amund is Prosperous
, ''Winnebago Summit'' Amund's milk station used large volume separators to skim off cream, and was consolidated into the Thompson Cooperative Creamery in 1897. Amund's population, in 1902, was 22. The community was meant to serve the farming area, and the lack of a railroad led to its dissolution. The local ''Forest City Summit'' newspaper reported in 1955 that the former location was still known as Amund corner. It noted that early settlers remembered Fourth of July celebrations at Amund with baseball games and bowery dances.(28 July 1955)
Ancestors Retain Eden Farms
, ''Forest City Summit'' In 1976, the '' Mason City Globe-Gazette'' named Amund among the eleven abandoned towns in Winnebago County, the others being Benson Grove, Deering, Delano, Grytte, Hollandale, Mount Valley, Norman, Ratna, Steen, and Tweeten.
See also
* Vinje, IowaReferences
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