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, almost 7 miles south of

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and two miles east of Dixon. From 1849 to 1914, it had a post office, sited in the southwestern part of Section 9 of Olive Township, at the southeast corner of the intersection of 178th Avenue and 298th Street.

History

According to ''The History of Clinton County, Iowa'' (1879),

References

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