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Title: Story of Lee County, Iowa
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Moorhead, Samuel W., 1849- Roberts, Nelson Commins, 1856-
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Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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the bank of the river,between the present Chestnut and Walnut streets. After a briefresidence there he removed to the Des Moines River, where he diedin 1835. Some time in 1833 Richard Chaney, who had previously locatedon the creek bearing his name opposite Keokuk, attracted by thesettlement at Fort Madison, came up the river and made a claim onthe upper part of the town site. He built his cabin near the mouthof the creek that empties into the Mississippi not far from the peni-tentiary. His claim included the old field that had been cultivatedby the soldiers of the garrison twenty years before. Other earlysettlers were Aaron White and Zachariah Hawkins. In 1835 John H. Knapp built a hewed log house on the exact siteof the old fort, one of the old chimneys of which he utilized for hisresidence, cleaned out the old well that had been used by the garrison,erected a new store building and sent for his family. On October9, 1835, his wife, Harriet, two sons, John H., Jr., and Jonas S., and a
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VIEWS OF BLACK HAWK HEIGHTS I HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 123 daughter, Elizabeth, arrived. They were accompanied by a marrieddaughter, Mrs. Joseph S. Douglass, her husband and two children. In June, 1835, John H. and Nathaniel Knapp employed AdolphusAllen to survey and lay out a town, the eastern limit of which is thepresent Oriental Street, and the western boundary was a short distanceabove Pine street. The boundaries, as given by Mr. Allen in hisreport, were as follows: Commencing at low-water mark on theMississippi River, due south of a red or Spanish oak tree standingon the bank of the river and running due north one-half mile; thencedue east 112 rods, or thereabout; thence due south to low-water markon said river; thence westerly, following the meandering of said river,by the said low-water mark, to the place of beginning. Between Front Street and the river were several fractional lots,on one of which stood the store first built by General Knapp andsold to Judge Jacob Cutler. Not long

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