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Marker placed in 2002 to mark the location of Benjamin Nye's
death at the hands of his son-in-law George McCoy. |
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Dedication Photo- CENTER (people who spoke at the dedication ceremony):
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Richard Drake,
Iowa State Senator
Richard Watkins, President Muscatine County Board of Supervisors
Gladys Mittman, Friends of Pine Creek Grist Mill and member
Muscatine Genealogical Society
Tom Hanifan, President Friends of Pine Creek Grist Mill
James Hahn, Iowa State Representative |
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Dedication Photo- RIGHT (Descendants of the Nye family): |
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Terry Fischer
Elliott, Unknown, Ray Fischer, Donna Vidas, Unknown, Bonnie
Fischer Huelsmann
Cathy Fisher Walters, Bonnie Fisher, Darlene Doyle, Jamie
Holmberg, Jim Fischer, Lori Doyle Holmberg |
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The Pine Creek Grist Mill, located at Wild
Cat Den Start Park, Muscatine, Iowa, was built in 1848 by
Benjamin Nye. Mr. Nye came west from Massachusetts and settled
in the new frontier along the mighty Mississippi River. |
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