On Driftwood Street near 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south.
Correctionville's first brick schoolhouse has been standing here since 1872. Correctionville residents working for a local brickyard dug the clay nearby hand-formed and fired for the schoolhouse.
The building was repaired in the 1950s and . . . — — Map (db m220484) HM
Near Union Bridge Trail 0.5 miles south of Highway 31.
Midwestern prairie towns relied on trains to bring passengers, consumer goods, construction lumber, mail and coal. A town with a depot enjoyed more business activity and travelers coming and going because trains made regularly scheduled stops to . . . — — Map (db m102567) HM
On 5th Street at Driftwood Street, on the right when traveling east on 5th Street.
Correctionville — the city with the longest single name in Iowa — was named for the correction line which forms Fifth Street through the heart of the Business District.
Correction lines were used by surveyors in making land . . . — — Map (db m92784)
On Osceola Avenue (County Highway L36) 0.2 miles north of 11th Street (U.S. 20), on the right when traveling north.
Russel A. Dixon was born on August 14, 1910 at West Plains, Missouri. After spending several summers working in the area with his brother Ellis building roads, Russ and his wife Gladys moved to the Correctionville area in 1937. He and Ellis became . . . — — Map (db m291714) HM
Near Union Bridge Trail 0.5 miles south of Highway 31.
This bridge is a type of bridge patented in 1844, by Thomas and Caleb Pratt. The first Pratt truss bridges were wood designs, but when wrought iron and then steel became more available, the design quickly switched to metal. Metal bridges could . . . — — Map (db m102565) HM
