CHAPTER XI -- CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES, PAST AND PRESENT (CONT'D)
VILLAGES THAT HAVE VANISHED. (CONT'D)
MANTENO.
The village of Manteno was established by a plat acknowledged by William W. Reed and his wife, Eleanor Reed, on January 15, 1856. The land, which was platted by P. G. Whitted, deputy county surveyor, included the north one-half of the northeast quarter of section 18 township 81, range 40, which lies in Grove township and borders Mill creek. The streets were platted sixty-six feet in width. The names of the streets were Jackson, Taylor, Iowa and Washington. The plat was approved by David Baughman, county judge. The village seems to have been re-platted on March 23, 1859, by William W. Reed and Eleanor Reed, his wife, and L. G. Tubbs and Martha M. Tubbs, his wife. This plat was acknowledged before and approved by H. A. Tarkington county judge, on March 23, 1859. By the way, the public records show a very neatly and beautifully drawn plat of this village by William Syland, recorder.
The streets named in the second plat were Aroma, Eureka, Monel, Union, Audubon, Main, Esson, Washington, Iowa, Taylor and Jackson. The plat also shows a tract thereon bordering on Mill creek, described as "Culver's ten acres."
ITAN.
One of the first villages of Shelby county was staked out by Mansel Wicks and Mr. Dodge. This vanished village seems to have been located on section 4, in what is now Center township, near the old home of L. D. Sunderland. It is said that a stock of merchandise was put in for sale by Jacob Majors. Even this embryo village was started with the view of getting the county seat located there, and this is the story in brief of the village of Itan.
MALLORY.
With the coming of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, in 1882, there was established, in the northwest part of Greeley township, in section 6, the postoffice of Mallory. There was, however, a village there in the seventies. For some years James Ivey was postmaster there. The postoffice was discontinued many years ago, and although the name of Mallory appears on an early map of Shelby county, issued in 1883, a few people probably in the county know that there ever was such a postoffice.
FISCUS.
Another postoffice and village, to which many Shelby county people of Polk and Jefferson townships went for their mail, and occasionally to trade, was Fiscus. The coming of the free delivery mail routes through Audubon and Shelby counties resulted in the discontinuance of this postoffice several years ago. It was located slightly across the county line in Audubon county.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2017 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pp. 224-226.
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