Robinson is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Delaware County,
Iowa
Iowa ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the upper Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Ill ...
, United States. It is located at the junction of County Highway D47 and 310th Street, five miles west of
Ryan and three miles southeast of
Monti, at 42.340037N, -91.578738W.
History
Robinson was founded in 1912,
named after the Robinson family of southwestern Delaware County. The post office at Robinson was established on April 5, 1913. The postmistress was Mary Irene Robinson.
Around the time of its founding, Robinson was home to two general stores, two hardware stores, a bank, a blacksmith shop, a restaurant, a harness shop, a lumber yard, a pool hall, a grain elevator, and a newspaper (the ''Robinson Herald'').
Alexander Robinson, one prominent Robinson, built a farm 1.5 miles north of the townsite. William B. Robinson operated the Farmers Savings Bank of Robinson and the Robinson Lumber and Grain Company, circa 1914.
[Merry, John F. (1914). ''History of Delaware County, Iowa, and its people, Volume 2'', pp. 211, 492-493.] The
Chicago, Anamosa and Northern Railroad (CAN) passed through Robinson, built in 1912 and proposed for
electrification
Electrification is the process of powering by electricity and, in many contexts, the introduction of such power by changing over from an earlier power source. In the context of history of technology and economic development, electrification refe ...
in 1916.
[Anon. (1916-05-27). "Electrification of another Iowa road proposed", '']Electric Railway Journal
''Electric Railway Journal'' was an American magazine primarily about electric urban rail transit in North America, published by McGraw Hill from June 1908 until December 1931. It was founded when publications ''Street Railway Journal'' (first p ...
'', Volume 47, McGraw Publishing. p. 1011. The CAN Railway was sold for scrap during World War I.
References
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Unincorporated communities in Delaware County, Iowa
Unincorporated communities in Iowa