David was an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Mitchell County,

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, United States. The site lies near the junction of Shadow Avenue and 440th Street, 3.5 miles northeast of Little Cedar and four miles southwest of McIntire.

Geography

David was located in the northern portion of Mitchell County along the

Chicago Great Western Railway The Chicago Great Western Railway was a Class I railroad that linked Chicago, Minneapolis, Omaha, and Kansas City. It was founded by Alpheus Beede Stickney in 1885 as a regional line between St. Paul and the Iowa state line called the Minnesot ...

, in Jenkins Township.

History

David was

plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...

ted by David E. McLaughlin and his wife in January 1893, in section 7 of Mitchell Township. When the CGW Railway was built through the area, McLaughlin donated a portion of his farmland for the rail line's passage, and in appreciation, rail executives named the rail station David. The David post office was established on November 30, 1891, and was discontinued on January 14, 1933. A fraternal post of the

Grand Army of the Republic The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army (United States Army), Union Navy (United States Navy, U.S. Navy), and the United States Marine Corps, Marines who served in the American Ci ...

, post number 512, was founded in David on April 30, 1894, with ten charter members; it moved to nearby Riceville in 1902. The Farmers Savings Bank of David was founded in 1907; the building itself was erected in 1900. Other businesses in David (circa 1918) included a blacksmith, a creamery, a general store, a farm implement company, a lumber yard, livestock dealers, and the railroad depot. David's population was 25 in 1902, 25 in 1915, and was 150 in 1925. Today, the David Church still operates in the area, but the site of David is mostly empty. A few farms dot the area.

References

External links

Jenkins Township, including David, Mitchell County Atlas, 1911
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