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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Rickardsville, IA

It wasn't until recently that I even knew this place existed.  And for that I am sorry.  And it's IN IOWA!!!
Per Wikipedia, Rickardsville is hovering a bit under 200 people and it's almost a square mile. 
  It is also a tough place to find much out about on the internet.  Apparently they don't believe in publicizing themselves online.
  I managed to find out that it was named for Salmon Rickard (h/t to La Salle Catholic School for putting some church history online to help me out a bit).   It is the proud (I hope) home of Avalon Service Center, so if any of you ever have a need for trailers, give them a ring.

(see?  there is it.)
I would encourage you to scroll around the satellite map of the area.  The fields look cool.

Anybody know anything about Rickardsville, IA that we should know?


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5 comments:

  1. axeDecember 5, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    Next time we go to Madtown we could say we are going stop off at Rickardsville and then New Glarus and do neither.

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  2. brumpelstiltskinDecember 5, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    I noticed on the map that Rickardsville is very close to the Field of Dreams. Sounds about right to me.

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  3. Erik the RedDecember 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM

    Bing map? Por que?

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  4. PaulDecember 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM

    Well, EtR, I used the Google map at first, but there was a bit of it that I didn't love when it was embedded, so I decided to see what the Bing map looked like. Then I stayed with that.

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  5. clakeDecember 6, 2011 at 1:23 PM

    My mom is from Rickardsville, and I grew up very near in the only-marginally-larger town of Holy Cross.

    The Avalon Service Center is right next to the Avalon Supper Club (or at least it used to be). I think the name comes from a long-ago time in Iowa when you had to belong to a club in order to enjoy the meal of supper.

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