”CENTER TOWNSHIP.

The new survey was made and on Aug. 31, 1899, Capt, J. A. Ware, of Sedalia, Mo., who had a contract to grade 25 miles of the railroad, arrived with his grading outfit that soon consisted of 100 teams divided into seven gangs. The track-laying machine arrived July 25, 1900, and on Aug. 15th, the station was opened in a box-car for the regular train service, by W. F. Gerheart, of Forest City. The telegraph line was erected three days later and the depot was completed soon afterward.”

Reference Data:

The Pioneer History of Pocahontas County, Iowa, by Robert Elliot Flickinger, 1904, page 461