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Melbourne Post Office. The town of Melbourne was platted February 23, 1882, by Milwaukee Land Company, in section 6 of Logan Township and was incorporated December 30, 1895. [3] [4] Melbourne was the only town in Marshall County to be served continuously by two major railroads. [5]
Honey Creek is an unincorporated community in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States. Its elevation is 1,014 feet (309 m). [ 1 ] Although it is unincorporated, it has a ZIP code 51542.
Brown Apartments is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.Designed by local architect William J. Brown, this is an early example of an apartment suites building type and the first known English basement apartment building in the city. [2]
The location of present-day Cedar Rapids was in the territory of the Meskwaki and Sauk peoples at the time of European American settlement.. The first settler on the site of the future city was Osgood Shepherd, who built a log cabin (which he called a tavern) in 1837 or 1838 next to the Cedar River (then known as the Red Cedar) at what is now the corner of First Avenue and First Street Northeast.
Main Street, Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1959. Coon Rapids is a city in Carroll and Guthrie counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 1,300 at the 2020 census, which is a decrease of 5 from the 2000 census. [4] The small portion of Coon Rapids that lies in Guthrie County is part of the Des Moines–West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Iowa Highway 408 leads east from St. Joseph 7 miles (11 km) to Lu Verne. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the St. Joseph CDP has an area of 0.85 square miles (2.2 km 2 ), all land. [ 4 ] It is bordered to the east by the East Fork of the Des Moines River .
As of the census of 2020, [8] there were 78 people, 35 households, and 29 families residing in the community. The population density was 182.8 inhabitants per square mile (70.6/km 2).
His mill also operated as a saw mill. In the 1870 census he is listed as a manufacturer with real estate worth $4,500. Blake was the first postmaster in Sioux Rapids and the first person from the county to be elected to the Iowa House, serving in the 1872 session. That year he sold his mill and moved to Denver for health reasons.