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Fitch's 1910 History of Fayette Co, Iowa
The links are to PDF files so will require Adobe Reader to be installed on your computer to open the files.
The book is organized in groups of 100 pages.
Open the content/index to find a starting point, or use the summary on the right.
After finding the topic or area of interest you can then open the appropriate 100 page series.

Contents, historical index, biographical index Pages    1-100 Pages 101-200 Pages 201-300 Pages 301-400 Pages 401-500 Pages 501-600 Pages 601-700 Pages 701-800 Pages 801-900 Pages 901-1000 Pages 1001-1100 Pages 1101-1200 Pages 1201-1300 Pages 1301-1400 Pages 1401-1484

Contents: Iowa Antiquities 25 Outline Sketch of Iowa History 38 Organization and Settlement of Fayette Co 68 Pioneer Reminiscences 93 Pioneer Homes, Amusements and Recreations 109 Court Houses, Jail and Poor Farm 115 German-American Citizens and Other Foreign Settlers 127 Public Utilities 133 Lawyers 144 The Press 152 The Medical Profession 162 Official Honors--Roster of County Officers 172 War of the Rebellion 181 Educational History 261 Churches  281 Freemasonry 313 Development of Agriculture and Stock Raising  322

Early Courthouse 1870's

Townships: Auburn 335 Banks 242 Bethel 347 Center 351 Clermont 357 Dover 367 Eden 373 Fairfield 383 Fremont 393 Harlan 399 Illyria 404 Jefferson 417 Oran 427 Pleasant Valley 431 Putnam 441 Scott 445 Smithfield 449 Union & West Union village 453 Westfield & Fayette village 489 Windsor 501 Misc Items 513 Outdoor Art in Development of a New Co 558 Biographies 565 to the end of the book, use the pdf index to review names.

Present Courthouse 1930's

 

The Wilcox Cabin
is credited as the first permanent cabin/farmstead site in Fayette Co, Iowa,
with a line of about two miles along the Mission Trail being significant
in the history of the early white settlement in the area.

A double lob cabin, two joined with a roofed open area was built at this location.
 

Viewed from a mile south, the Wilcox cabin was at the tree line on the far right. 
The Mission Trail ran on the edge of hill country on its way from the Dubuque area to Ft. Atkinson
 the trail attracted most of the first settlers moving into the area along the southern route.
A few other cabins were built along the hill line in the distance,
thus it would become referred too as  the Wilcox Settlement through the 1840's. 
Numerous early travelers into Fayette Co. stopped for awhile at the Wilcox Settlement. 
 

Basically this is a view looking eastward through the Wilcox Settlement,
with the Wilcox cabin site being over the hill, where the trees start on the left side.
There was an early cabin site at the farmstead seen on the right,
and one in the tree area on the right, with others back to the west.
Probably at any one time there was never more than a half dozen cabins
in the Wilcox Settlement area.

The Wilcox cabin was on the north edge of the Mission Trail and just to the west of
a clear water steam draining the tall/wet grass prairie country to the south of the the hills.

The Wilcox Cabin and Settlement was to the the left/west of the the prairie stream
which emptied into the Volga River about a mile northward.  Early settlers and Indian
often camped and took shelter along the stream bank clearing on the left.

Looking from the Wilcox Cabin site to the south the view is along the prairie stream
and slough/wet grass prairie habitat.

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