You can read the whole chapter on the Iowa History Site. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS CHAPTER III THE BROWNS AMESVILLE, or "Stringtown," as it was sometimes derisively called in honor of its one street, was a straggling village on the banks of Federal Creek, when Daniel Truesdell Brown brought home his bride, Maria Foster, in the fall of 1845. When it rained hard, that one street was a sea of mire. "I remember parties at the little hotel in rainy weather." said Grandmother Brown, "when the girls had to be put on a horse and taken across the muddy street that way. Debbie Clough Gerischer Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/ IAGENWEB: Special History Project: http://iagenweb.org/history/index.htm Gerischer Family Web Site: http://gerischer.rootsweb.com/