LEE COUNTY LOCAL/FAMILY HISTORY DEPT. *  DONNELLSON PUBLIC LIBRARY *  500 PARK AVE. *  DONNELLSON, IA *  52625

Abandoned Towns & Communities of Lee Co.
 
Contributed by Cyndi Vertrees

1887 Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1887-88 Volume IV

 La Crew. On the St. L, R. & N. W. Ry, in Lee county, 19 miles west of Fort Madison, the county seat, and 9 south of Salem, the nearest banking point.  Population, 50.  Tel. W. ?. Exp., Am Dr. R. H. Todd, postmaster.

Allers H, grain
Benjamin J., blacksmith
Bonnewll & Co., grain elevator
Brown Mrs. C. J., milliner
Brown J. W., carpenter
Griffey Wenzel, general store
Hattfield, C. D., wagonmaker
McCulloch Bros, live stock
Odohorn Ves, hotel
Powell Bros, general store
Powell J. T., apiarist ?
Thompson Wm., Poultry
Todd R. H., Physician
Wilkinson D. M., railroad and express agt.

 

1922-1923 Polk’s Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory Vol XX

LACREW
On the Burlington Route in Franklin township, Lee county, 18 miles west of Fort Madison, the judicial seat and 2 from Mr. Hamill, the nearest banking point.  Has rural delivery from West Point.

Laughlin W. W., general store
McKeehan Bert, garage

 

Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory 1918-1919 Vol XIX 

LACREW
On the Burlington Route in Franklin township, Lee county, 18 miles w. of Fort Madison, the judicial seat, and 2 from Mt. Hamill, the nearest banking point.  Has rural delivery from West Pint.

Griffith J. D., blacksmith
Laughlin W. W., general store

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