Editing Castana, Iowa (section)

==History==
A post office has been in operation at Castana since 1865.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IA&county=Monona | title=Monona County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref> Castana was [[plat]]ted in 1886 by the railroad.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20100325112550/http://www.castanaiowa.com/mycustompage0006.htm The Early Years, Old Castana]}}, accessed 24 March 2010</ref> The name Castana was selected by an early settler who believed it to be a Latin word meaning "chestnuts".<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA52|year=1908|page=52}}</ref>