CLINTON COUNTY

Grand Mound

GRAND MOUND	Pop. 500 Alt. 721	Control, Opposite Center of Village.
Clinton 24.1	Cedar Rapids 55.9	One hotel, 1 garage. Local speed limit, 10 miles per hour, enforced. Two banks, C&NW Railroad, 25 general business places, express company, telephone company. Commercial Club.
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- A Complete Official Road Guide of The LINCOLN HIGHWAY Fifth Edition (1924)

Grand Mound.
On a hot afternoon in late August, with the corn high and the wind motionless, the Lincoln Highway enters the hamlet of Grand Mound from the east.

Grand Mound.
Grand Mound is now a wisp of an old railroad town. Still, someone has taken the time to mark its legacy.

Grand Mound.
The blue sign on the gate to Grand Mound's Evergreen Cemetery points out that it is a "non-perpetual care cemetery." Grand Mounders don't take anything for granted.

Remarking on the railroad grade about a half-mile east of Grand Mound:
"Note how the grade is extremely steep to the level of the tracks, then just as steep back down the other side. In the old days the area on top probably was even shorter than it is here, and early motorists would have vaulted over the top much as an aviator at the crest of an outside loop. Trains had whistles in those days, but many cars lacked mufflers, and most had flimsy wood bodies sheathed in thin steel. Slow-moving Model T's low on fuel would starve out the engine on the way up, due to the low-mounted gas tank which was unable to feed an engine dependent upon gravity flow. The car would die on the tracks. And so would whole families."

- Gregory Franzwa, The Lincoln Highway: Iowa, The Patrice Press, 1995.