. History of Delaware County, Iowa, and its people . nship, at onetime was the possessor of over two thousand acres of land. When he first lo-cated here he built a steam gi-ist mill on the banks of Silver Lake and afterwardpurchased the Rocky Nook Mill property on the Ma(iuoketa. Leonard Norris was among the earliest of the hardy land-seekers who cameto this county in 1843, when but few white people had ventured into what wasthought a wild and cheerless Eldorado. With his young wife he .settled onsection 14, entering the land and building a cabin 1 hereon. This was his homefor many years. Isaa
. History of Delaware County, Iowa, and its people . nship, at onetime was the possessor of over two thousand acres of land. When he first lo-cated here he built a steam gi-ist mill on the banks of Silver Lake and afterwardpurchased the Rocky Nook Mill property on the Ma(iuoketa. Leonard Norris was among the earliest of the hardy land-seekers who cameto this county in 1843, when but few white people had ventured into what wasthought a wild and cheerless Eldorado. With his young wife he .settled onsection 14, entering the land and building a cabin 1 hereon. This was his homefor many years. Isaac Smith moved from Ohio to Delaware County in 1847, coming overland\>y wagon and carrying such household and other effects as could be convenientlycarried by wagon. He settled iu what was known as the Bay neighborhood inDelhi and Union townships. He was a member of the celebrated Gray Beards,of the Thirty-seventh Iowa Infantry. His son. Perry L. Smith, came withtlicin. and in 1856 rcuiovc<l t(i Delhi, where lie clerked in the dry-goods estab-. FUEMAXS MILL AND HARTWICK BEIDGE OX MAQlOKKTA RIVER, XKAR DKLHI
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