On Main Street north of 1st Street (Iowa Highway 2), on the left when traveling north.
1850 • Decatur County was organized
1853 • County seat moved from
Decatur City to Independence
1855 • Town name change from
Independence to South Independence
to Leon
1871 • Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad arrives in Leon . . . — — Map (db m89356) HM
On Main Street south of 3rd Street, on the left when traveling south.
With the faith and courage of
their forefathers who made
possible the freedom of these
United States
The Boy Scouts of America
dedicate this replica of the
Statue of Liberty as a pledge
of everlasting fidelity and
loyalty . . . — — Map (db m72390) HM WM
On 1st Street (U.S. 69) at Church Street (U.S. 69), on the right when traveling west on 1st Street.
From the late 1840s through the 1860s, an exodus of more than 70,000 Mormons passed by here on their way to their "New Zion" in Utah. Starting from Nauvoo, Illinois in February 1846, the first group of at least 13,000 Mormons crossed into Iowa . . . — — Map (db m72391) HM
