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Mulberry Center, Iowa - A Hamilton County Settlement

By Martin E. Nass

Transcribed for the IAGenWeb Project by Janelle Martin, with permission of Martin "Ed" Nass.

Mulberry Center - This small community was located in NW/NW Sec. 8-89-24 of Blairsburg Township. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Morris settled in the area, and Mrs. Morris immediately sent to her home in Wisconsin for mulberry trees which she planted around the farmstead. These trees gave name to the small settlement, and the Morris farm became known as the Mulberry Farm.

A church was built just north of the farm and was completed at a cost of just over $600.00. Much of the labor and materials were donated by the parishoners. The land for the church was donated by J. C. Miller.

Then a school was built just south of the Mulberry Farm. Though the community never had a post office, Mrs. Morris kept an "inland" post office just across the county line at a place called Waterman. Mrs.Morris' son, Asa, carried the mail from Webster Ctiy to Waterman on horseback.

The Mulberry Center Church has been moved recently into the Wilson Brewer Park in Webster City. It joins the Brewer Cabin, the Jamison Cabin, the Harmony Center country school, the Rock Island Depot, and the first Hamilton County Courthouse in a pioneer village.


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