LIBERTYVILLE IOWA

The 2023 Water Quality Report for the City of Libertyville is available upon request at City Hall in Libertyville and will not be mailed to residents individually.  A copy is posted in the bulletin board outside the office. For questions or to request a copy, please contact the City Clerk at 641.693.3271.  Office hours are Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The City of Libertyville purchases its water from Fairfield Water Department. 

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Libertyville History

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On the west side of Main Street was a row of one-story buildings.  One was a drugstore owned by Icabod Warner, next a shoemaker's shop owned by a Mr. Jigaman, another small building and then the Odd Fellows Hall. 

In 1879 there were three general stores which kept stocks of drugs, drygoods, and groceries, a lumber yard, grain elevator, a hotel, a wagon and carriage establishment, a harness shop, two shoe shops, a barber shop, a cabinet shop, a blacksmith shop, a meat market and a saloon.

In 1858 or 1859 th C.R. & P. railroad was constructed through Libertyville.  Previous to that everything was hauled by ox or horse-drawn wagons from Keokuk or Burlington where freight was shipped by boat up the Mississippi River.

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Notes from - 'A Stroll Back', a history of Libertyville, Iowa.