Amity Township, Page County, Iowa

College Springs Presbyterian Church in western Amity Township.

Amity Township is a township in Page County, Iowa, United States.[1]

History

Amity Township (Township 67, Range 37) was surveyed in June 1852 by William Shields[2] and established in 1858.[3] Amity was the site of the first underground railroad station north of the Missouri border, in the southwest corner of Iowa.[4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Amity Township, Page County, Iowa
  2. ↑ History of Page County. Des Moines: Iowa Historical Co. 1880.
  3. ↑ Kershaw, W. L. (1909). History of Page County, Iowa: Also Biographical Sketches of Some Prominent Citizens of the County, Volume 1. S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. p. 92.
  4. ↑ SCHWIEDER, DOROTHY. “Cultural Diversity: Immigrants and African Americans in the Hawkeye State, 1833–80.” Iowa: The Middle Land, University of Iowa Press, 1996, pp. 83–106. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt20ks0kr.10. Accessed 5 June 2026.

40°36′54″N 95°05′16″W / 40.6149°N 95.0877°W / 40.6149; -95.0877


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