Editing Walford, Iowa (section)

==History==
Walford was originally called Terry, and under the latter name was laid out in the year 1884 when the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bentoncountyiowa.com/towns/walford.html | title=Walford | publisher=County of Benton, IA | access-date=7 August 2014}}</ref> In 1889, the town's name was changed to Walford, primarily at the behest of the U.S. Postal Service due to the similarity of names between Terry and [[Perry, Iowa]]. In 1897, Walford gained national attention when the general store burned down, leaving a charred corpse; since two men were missing, news stories about the identity of the corpse and the hunt for the survivor made the headlines for weeks.<ref>{{cite book|pages=14, 34 |title=Skull in the Ashes |last=Kaufman |first=Peter |publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=9781609382131}}</ref>