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and banded with a wide iron band that partly
inclosed the upper burr which was then turned with a
wooden pin by hand. This mill was used in turns
by the whole neighborhood. Each one by turns
ground his own grist. Stor-Jon, who lived in Swede
Bend carried a sack of corn from his home to Swede
Point to be ground on this mill. The distance
between the two places was about 30 miles. When
be had finished grinding, he studied the
mechanism of the mill, so when he got home he made his
own mill, which was used by the people in Swede
Bend. When C. J. Cassel built his residence in
Swede Point in 1862, these old burrs were used in
the foundation. If they could be taken out they
would be valuable historical relies as they were the
first burrs used in Boone county and were made from
native stone.
The timber along the Des Moines River formed a
belt about five miles in width on each side * but along
smaller streams the timber extended further out,
thus forming a timbered point. It was at these
Points the first settlements were made. At these
points the pioneers began to break the virgin soil,
and make the wilderness a beautiful place, causing
to bloom as a rose. Our Swedish people settled
at the point of Murphy creek and the settlement
’was called Swede Point.
In 1849 Carl Johan Cassel, son of Peter Cassel, the
founder of New Sweden settlement, joined our
pioneers at Swede Point. C. J. Cassel married TJlla
Dalander at Fairfield, Iowa, April 21, 1848. This was
the first Swedish marriage in Iowa, or in any of
the western states as far as known. Anna Catharina,
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