GRANDVIEW.

This is a town which hardly exists even in the memory of the oldest settlers. It was on the northwest quarter of Section 4, on the county line four miles west of the present town of Alexis. The survey was made and certified by County Surveyor Butler October 8, 1836.

The plat shows a, public square and sixteen blocks, with Warren, Monmouth and Pleasant streets running north and south, and Henderson, Benton and Knox streets running east and west. The owners of the town site were John Humphrey, George H. Wright, George Blake, Lyman Prentiss, William C. Butler and Daniel McNeil, Jr. The town site has long since been abandoned, and is now in farm lands.

 

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