From the Iowa State Gazeteer and Business Directory 1882: Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa Contributed by Cathy Labath ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUFFALO. A village of 500 inhabitants on the Mississippi River and a station on the Muscatine br. C.R.I. & P. Ry in the southwestern part of Scott county, nine miles from Davenport (c.h.) which contains its nearest bank , 150 from Des Moines and 70 (air line) from Dubuque. It contains several churches, a public school and weeklly newspaper. Tri-weekly mail stages run to Blue Grass and Muscatine. Exp. U.S. Tel., W.U. Mail daily. Wm Karges, postmaster. Aliethuer S.C., physician Appel, Conrad, general store Bald, Mrs., stone quarry Baumgarten, Rev. W.E. (Methodist) Bohl John, flour and feed Bronely Capt., ferry boat propr. Cass H.H. , lumber De Santo H.H., druggist DeSteiger Glass Co. Dorman H & Sons, general store Hall E., railroad agent Herbert V., hotel propr. Herkel S., hotel propr. Hirsemann C., hotel propr. Hoffbauer H., brewer Hoffbaum Hugo, justice of peace Karges Wm, General Store Kruse Bros, hardware Lee Wm, stoneware mnfr. Mauers Mrs. saloon Metzger & Friske, building stone Rowen John, mayor Vonach Henry, saloon Wells, G.R., physician Whisler Rev. J. H. (Christian) ========================================================================== 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. This file was prepared for the Iowa Archives by Cathy Labath ======================================================================