My 1919 map does show the line from Hilton to Foster with connections at
both ends, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LaVerne Andreessen [mailto:LWAndreessen@f...]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:23 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Albia, Moravia and the IaC
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> Nicholas Pitsch wrote:
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> > >Phil pointed out the Milwaukee's spur to the NE of our site.
> He opined it
> > ran to a coal mine to the north a mile or so.
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> > Have a copy of a 1909 C. M. Foote Plat map showing the line proceeding
> > northwest from that point to a junction with the Wabash and
> CM&A at Hilton.
> > Not a vast distance, traverses parts of four sections in Monroe
> Township,
> > Monroe county.
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> > N. L. Pitsch
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> My 1909 Board of RR Commissioners map does not show that spur, but
> it evidently followed Soap Creek northwesterly as Soap Creek and
> Foster are shown at the same places on the Milwaukee line.
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> Monroe Township - amazing the number of Iowa townships named after
> presidents. The map shows Foster is about two miles north of
> the Appanoose/Monroe County line.
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> LWA
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