Another place to look for bygone towns and/or villages is on www.iowaghostowns.com If you know of any not listed you can send them there as well. Mel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Williams" <[email protected]> To: "IOWA LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Cities & Towns/Past & Present You may also find Iowa Communities and Counties (Past & Present) on the IAGenWeb state website, which also shows Olean in Keokuk county: http://iagenweb.org/state/places/o.htm Of course, once you narrow-down the county, the best place to find county information is to visit an IAGenWeb county site. The Keokuk site explains that Olean was a post office in Jackson Township. Post office names so often identified regions and were often synonymous with the idea of a town and sometimes became towns. Here is a Jackson Township history that references Olean on the Keokuk IAGenWeb site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iakeokuk/histories/jacksontwp.htm Steve Iowa State Census Project Coordinator for IAGenWeb. http://iagenweb.org/census/ Iowa Co., Iowa Coordinator for IAGenWeb. http://iagenweb.org/iowa/ (next to Keokuk Co.!) _____________________________________________ For additional information concerning how the list works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ _____________________________________________ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message