Annals Of Jackson County Iowa PDF Download

Excerpt from Annals of Jackson County, Iowa, Vol. 1 The early promise of greatness for Lowell was a delasion and her glory long since depirted. One of the great est draw backs in t' e irly d tys was the often impassible roads. The roads were generally a single track throurh the great forest, and ir was many years before the trees were out to let the sun in to dry them. Another ditliculty was the bridges. The riia full Was heavier than of late years and it Ceemcd that no matter how high we made the btifines the water would get. High enough to take them out. There was a wooden bridge over the river in Iiiaquoizeta part of the time, and it was out a good part of the time.' When the bridge was out; and the river low enough we would ford it. But in the Spring there was much of the time the road through the river bottoms would be under water so we could not reach the bridge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.