Mt. Etna, Adams County, Iowa - From the 1882 Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prepared for the IaGenWeb Archives by Cathy Labath ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MT. ETNA. In Adams county, 11 miles north of Corning (c h), the usual shipping point and location of nearest bank on the C.B. & Q.R.R. The Nodaway river here has available power. Population 250. Mail stages to Corning and Fontanelle tri-weekly. Mail, tri-weekly. A. Harider, postmaster. Cookley Dr Joshua, druggist. Cupp Rev A Y (Evangelical). Dale H, lawyer. Deer J N, general store. Etna Creamery, Co., creamery. Farlow Rev (Meth. Episcopal). Forrester Rev B (Adventist). Harider A, general store. Homan James, hardware. Homan Joseph, physician. Homan & Black, general store. Knapp James, blacksmith. Leach John L, hotel propr. Leep A J, furniture. Reynolds Benjamin, wagonmaker. Scholtz Bros, general store. Sink Rev David. Stearns Charles, hotel propr. Sweet H L, druggist. Thomas Phillip, saloon. Thomas & Harider, flour mill Tuttle H, blacksmith. ========================================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, for their private use as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Prepared for the IaGenWeb Archives by Cathy Labath =========================================================================================