. Story of Lee County, Iowa. one great prosperity. Shortly after this sale the old Muir property was purchased byL. B. Fleak, who opened a boat store on the levee, bought two bargesand engaged in the lightering business over the rapids. In 1839Moses Gray built the old Keokuk House, a frame structure, threestories in height, built of split lumber and roofed with was 26 by 44 feet and had partitions made of green cottonwoodboards. Verily, in this building the walls had ears, but such wasKeokuks first hotel. Mr. Fleak rented the house and opened it asa hotel, but soon after that cer
. Story of Lee County, Iowa. one great prosperity. Shortly after this sale the old Muir property was purchased byL. B. Fleak, who opened a boat store on the levee, bought two bargesand engaged in the lightering business over the rapids. In 1839Moses Gray built the old Keokuk House, a frame structure, threestories in height, built of split lumber and roofed with was 26 by 44 feet and had partitions made of green cottonwoodboards. Verily, in this building the walls had ears, but such wasKeokuks first hotel. Mr. Fleak rented the house and opened it asa hotel, but soon after that certain creditors of Dr. Isaac Galland,who had bought the building of Gray, secured a judgment againsthim and the house was sold. It was bid in for the St. Louis creditorsby Mr. Fleak for the amount of the judgment ($800), and not longafterward he bought the hotel for $640. A large addition to thehotel was built two years later. Prince de Joinville and his retinuewere guests at this hotel soon after the addition was STREET SCENE, KEOKUK HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 139 SOME EARLY EVENTS The death of Doctor Muir, in 1832, was the first to occur in Keo-kuk. Moses Stillwell died in 1834, in the cabin he had built someyears before near the foot of High Street, and John Gaines, the firstjustice or notary, died on April 21, 1839. During the days of trading houses, the Indians brought in largequantities of elk, deer, wolf, beaver, otter, raccoon, mink and muskratskins to trade for blankets, knives, trinkets and whisky. ValencourtVan Ausdal used to tell of some of the sprees the red men would havewhen they brought their peltries into the trading post. Said he:They were excessively fond of whisky, but not much in the habitof drinking to excess unless by prearrangement to get on a bigdrunk, when a certain number were appointed to stay sober andprotect the drunken ones from doing harm to themselves or favorite places for having their big drunks were at what isnow known as t
Size: 1949px × 1282px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, bookidstoryofleecounty01moor
