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History of Cass County, Iowa
Continental Historical Company
Springfield, ILL; 1884

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                                CHAPTER XXVII
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                             BEAR GROVE TOWNSHIP

          The sub-division of Cass county that is known as Bear Grove,
       comprises all of congressional township 75 north, range 36 west of
       the fifth principal meridian, and is bounded on the north by
       Atlantic, on the south by Noble, on the east by Union and on the
       west by Cass. The surface is generally undulating prairie and the
       soil a rich, dark loam, of untold fertility and fecundity. It is
       sufficiently watered by Seven-Mile creek, four-Mile creek, and
       several tributaries of those and Turkey creek. Four-Mile creek has
       its source on section 13, and for about two miles flows nearly due
       west until on the line between sections 15 and 16, it makes a
       confluence with a small stream that comes in from the west, where
       the general course of the stream is turned southward, and inter-
       secting townships 21 and 28, empties its waters into Seven-Mile
       Creek, in the northern part of section 33. Seven-Mile creek enters
       the township from Union, on the east line of section 36, and
       meandering a tortuous course westward, crosses sections 36, 35, 34,
       33 and 32, in the western part of the latter inclining southward
       and makes its exit from Bear Grove. Two or three small branches of
       Turkey creek are in the northern part of the township, supplying
       running water to sections 1, 9, 8, 7, 6 and 17. Bear creek is one of
       these tributaries, and is quite a stream. The township is settled up
       by some of Cass county's best citizens, men of all nationalities,
       but American citizens, whose chief endeavor seems to be to have the
       finest cultivated land, the most comfortable homes, and the most
       convenient out-buildings; men who are a pride to any country, and
       the bone and sinew of any prosperous and growing community.

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