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[[underline]] Biographical History of Shelby + Audubon Counties, Iowa. 1889[[/underline]]
p. 230 - Geology, Topography & Nat. History (of Shelby co.)- pp. 230-231.
Galland's Grove contains "about 1000 acres."
[[underline]]p. 230[[/underline]]- "It is a prairie country, but does not have the usual characteristics of prairie land, as occasional groves and beautiful streamlets relieve the ordinary monotony of a stretch of prairie."
p. 231- "These natural groves, planted by Mother Nature, are made up for the most part, of the different species of oak, elm, ash, hickory, black walnut and bass/wood.  There are also many thickets of sumach, hazel, thorn-apple, blackberry, gooseberry and kindred shrubs.  
The entire county is supposed by geological experts, to be underlaid with a coal deposit, to a greater or lesser extent, but is concealed by the post-tertiary deposits, not less 

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than 200 feet beneath the surface.  The only stone fit for building purposes is the boulder of the drift foundation.  Future prospecting and delving into the geological strata are quite likely to present a mineral wealth of great financial value. 
One of the finest features of the natural resources of Shelby County is the excellent quality, as well as quantity, of pure, wholesome water found in its numerous water courses and at easy depths for wells."
First whites (Galland's Grove) 1848.  Mormons "Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints."  Council Bluffs was Kanesville Saw mills - first at Galland's Grove, second in 1857 in Bowman's Grove.

p. 230 - "bluff deposit" 

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