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B
Main
street
was
extremely
muddy
and
at
one
time
they
actually
had
to
put
extra
wood
beneath
the
sidewalks
because
they
would
fall
completely
out
of
sight
in
the
mud
and
there
were
also
duck
ponds
and
frog
ponds
near
the
depot.
And
so
you
can
definitely
tell
that.
It
was
a
swampland
at
the
beginning.
In.
B
A
B
He
and
massachusetts
congressman
oaks
ames
met
in
chicago
in
1863
and
then
traveled
westward
into
iowa.
They
came
as
far
as
the
railroad
line
went,
which
at
that
time
was
marshalltown
and
then
traveled
by
stagecoach,
further
west.
Looking
for
the
path
of
the
railroad
as
it
forged
west
towards
council
bluffs.
B
A
B
Black
and
hoggitt
didn't
want
the
railroad
running
so
close
to
their
farms,
because
railroads
are
loud
and
noisy
and
big,
and
so
um
they
said
no.
But
then
blair
went
to
another
early
resident
cynthia
duff
who
had
moved
here
in
1863
with
her
husband
from
new
york
state
and
asked
her
to
go
to
the
men
and
buy
the
land
instead,
and
so
she
told
hoggitt
and
black
that
she
was
buying
the
land
for
her
uncle
coming
from
the
east.
And
then
the
uncle
turned
out
to
be
the
railroad
in.
A
B
A
A
Ames
was
no
longer
marshland.
After
platting
ames
john
inslee
blair
continued
across
iowa
planning
such
towns
as
boone,
scranton,
ogden
and
blairsburg,
though
an
influential
railroad
investor
oaks
ames
never
saw
the
town
for
which
he
was
namesake.
His
survey
of
the
depot
location
in
1863
was
his
first
and
last
visit.
B
After
that,
he
never
came
back,
so
he
never
actually
set
foot
in
the
city
of
ames
once
it
was
planted.
Ames
work,
however,
outlasted
his
visits.
Well,
what
we're
celebrating
this
year
for
the
sesquicentennial
is
that
flatting
of
ames
in
1864
and
then,
of
course,
we're
also
celebrating
the
the
people,
the
decisions,
the
businesses
organizations
that
happened
since
that
flatting,
so
we're
celebrating
the
last
150
years
of
ames
history.