Newton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA
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Wikipedia 2016:
Newton Township is one of sixteen townships in Buchanan County, Iowa, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 423.
History:
The first permanent white settler in Newton Township was a Joseph Austin, who built a cabin "by a spring at the edge of some timber in the township" sometime before or during 1847. The first election was held in the southern part of the township in August 1854. Many early settlers of the area were from Ireland.
Two cemeteries were established in the 1850s, one in the northern and one in the southern part of the township. A Catholic church and rectory were constructed adjoining the northern cemetery in 1870. Newtonville was established in 1873, when a post office was built near the center of the township, at 42.347°N 91.675°W (Sections 16 and 17, see map on right). In 1875, the State Atlas of Iowa showed two churches, seven schools, and 19 houses in the township. Just 11 years later, in 1886, Warner and Foote's map of Newton Township showed 137 houses, ten schools, three churches, and two post offices in the township.
Many other small settlements sprang up, including Erin, Atlantic, and Monti. None of these communities ever incorporated. Atlantic was located at 42.311°N 91.685°W (Sections 28 and 33), and Erin at 42.369°N 91.600°W (Section 1). Monti was founded in 1885, on Buffalo Creek in the northern part of the township, at the location of the Catholic church (Sections 2 and 3). With the introduction of Rural Free Delivery in 1902, both the Newtonville and Monti post offices closed.
In 1911, the village of Kiene was founded 1.5 miles west of Monti at 42.384°N 91.661°W (Section 4), the result of a planned railway through the area. Kiene was named after Henry Kiene or Peter Kiene, presidents of the proposed rail line, who planned a rail route west from Dubuque toward Independence in 1903. The Chicago, Anamosa and Northern (CAN) Railway was built through Newton Township in 1912 and passed through both Kiene and Monti. Monti soon became a small but bustling community, with stores, a blacksmith shop, a bank, and a flag station. The old Newtonville Congregational Church was moved to Kiene in June 1914, and a new church was built at Newtonville. Kiene was a village of 25 residents in 1914; the populations of Newtonville and Monti were too small to report.
The post-World War I years saw a decline in the area's population. The CAN railroad was sold for scrap during World War II. The Newtonville, Erin, and Atlantic areas emptied. By 1955, the only structure remaining at Kiene was the church. The official 1956 school district map for Buchanan County shows only the locations of Kiene and Monti; by this time, the other villages were gone. The Kiene Congregational Church closed in 1970, its congregation merged into the Church of Christ United in Winthrop.
The school at Monti closed in 1966, with the disbanding of the Monti Consolidated School District. The northern portions of the district went to East Buchanan Community School District, while the southern areas were ceded to North Linn Community School District.
Today the only settlement left in Newton Township is Monti; traces of the old railroad grade can still be seen at the northern edge of the hamlet. St. Patrick's Catholic Church at Monti ceased regular masses in 2005.
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Nachname, Taufnamen  |
Geburt  |
Personen-Kennung | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Breitbach, Charles Dean | 28 Dez 1916 | Newton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA | I151070 |
| 2 | Breitbach, Darrell | 18 Jul 1913 | Newton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA | I151046 |
| 3 | Breitbach, Mary Phyllis | 21 Jul 1917 | Newton, Buchanan County, Iowa, USA | I151047 |