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Title: A history of Dickinson County, Iowa, together with an account of the Spirit Lake massacre, and the Indian troubles on the northwestern frontier ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Smith, Roderick A., 1831-1918
Subjects: Massacres -- Iowa Spirit Lake Dickinson County (Iowa) -- History
Publisher: Des Moines, The Kenyon printing & mfg. co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uilding in here, the .attorney for the Rock Island road,in company with ^Mr. Bruce, of Pocahontas County, bought theold John Brown place for that company, and after the author-ities of the road abandoned the project of building up here atthat time, the land went into the hands of others from Pocahon-tas County and soon after came to be known as PocahontasPoint. Within the Last few years quite a respectable village of sum-mer cottages has grown up at and about Pillsburys Point. Acompany of I)es Moines capitalists organized what is knownas the South Beach Company and purchased several desirablelocations, a portion of Avhich they have laid off and platted ascottage lots. On many of these lots some of the finest summercottages about the lakes have been erected. Judge Given alsopurchased quite a tract which he laid out and platted, but in-stead of offering the lots for sale he has erected cottages onmany of them which he leases to the families of summer tour- p o CO W o t—I o s 9: aW 0 o
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553 554 DICKINSON COUNTY - IOWA ists. ITc already has some eiglit or ten wliidi lie leases thatway, and proposes building more in ilie near fiilure. Tlio ))lacewas known as Pillsbiirys Point loiii; lutore any cottages werebuilt, and is bcttei- known hy that n,ame now than any other.Attempts have at ditferent times, been jnade to adopt a morehigh sounding name, as Cass Bay, C^rescent Beach, andpossibly some others, but so far witliout success. This is a panof the old Gardner j^lace of the pioneer clays. Here is locatedthe old log cabin wiiich Avas the residence of the familv of Bow-hind (lardner at the time of the massacre of 1857. Of theh.alf dozen cabins bnilt previous to that time, this is the onlyone preserved. Here is located tlie monniuenl i-rected by thestate and dedicated to the niemoi-y of the victims of the only In-dian massacre ever joerpetrated in Iowa. Here was enactedihe bloodiest itragedy ri?corded in Iowa liistoiv. Hundreds ofvisitors every summer make pilgrim.ages to t

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