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| | Crescent City, Iowa |
 | | Organized in the spring of 1856, the first proprietors of Crescent City were Joseph E. Johnson, H. Terry, S. Hough, Samuel Eggleston, L. Littlefield, L. Goddard, O. Dutrow, D. Jackson and R. Steele. |
 | | A newspaper was started there, and also a bank, and for quite a while it looked as if there was something in it, but in the fall of '57, when the crash came, only the strongest of the young cities (there were no towns or villages) survived. |
 | | He had a neat dwelling in Crescent which he brought down to Council Bluffs, and after living in it some years, sold it to the late Col. W. |
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