Editing Keswick, Iowa (section)

==History==
The [[Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway]] built a 66-mile branch to [[What Cheer, Iowa|What Cheer]] via Keswick in 1879<ref>Report of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway Company for the year ending June 30, 1880, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ISETAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA133&pg=PA278 Third Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the Year Ending June 30, 1880], Mills, Des Moines, 1880; page 133.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6I5XgcduNQYC&pg=PA253 Travelers' Official Guide of the Railway and Steam Navigation Lines in the United States and Canada], National Railway Publication Co., New York, July 1881; pages 250-251.</ref>  The town is named for [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick, England]], the home town of a local woman who had offered lodging to the track-laying crew.<ref>Tom Savage, [https://books.google.com/books?id=DxagLIZHNv4C&lpg=PA122&pg=PA122 A Dictionary of Iowa Place Names], University of Iowa Press, 2007; page 122.</ref>