Grundy Center, IA

GRUNDY CENTRE, the county seat, is in the centre of the county [Grundy], on Black Hawk creek. It contains two general stores. The great drawback of the county is want of timber, but coal is found within twenty miles of this place. The village is fifteen miles south of the DuBuque & Sioux City Railroad, and twenty miles north of Marshalltown, on the Cedar Rapids & Missouri River Railroad.  (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)