Iowa Falls, IA

IOWA FALLS is in the northern part of the county, on the Iowa River, and on the DuBuque and Sioux City R. R., 16 miles northwest of Eldora. It contains four churches, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist and Presbyterian; also one flouring mill, two saw mills, five general stores, one grocery store, one hardware store, one drug store, and two brick manufactories. The advantages of Iowa Falls as a manufacturing town are very superior, as it possesses an almost unlimited supply of water power. The finest quality of limestone is found in and around the town. Population, 600.   (Hair's Iowa State Gazetteer..., 1865)