From the 1882 Iowa State Gazetteer and Business Directory: El Dorado, Fayette Co., Iowa Contributed by Cathy Labath -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EL DORADO. A village in Fayette county, 7 miles north of West Union (c h), its shipping point on the B & N. W. Ry The Turkey river furnishes power. There are 2 churches and 1 public school. Shipments, eggs, butter, flour, timber and cordwood. Population 150. Mail station to West Union and Calmar semi-weekly. Theo. Hesselmeyer, postmaster. Clemetson Tobias, harnessmaker. Erickson Tobias, shoemaker. Griptill Freeman, carpenter. Hesselmeyer Theodore, general store. Kinney A D, blacksmith. Miles M M, millwright. Newmann Augustus, blacksmith Schatz & Co, flour mill. Woolf Joseph, saw-mill. ====================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. 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. Submitted by Cathy Labath ---------------------------------------------------------------------