Editing Wayland, Iowa (section)

==History==

Wayland was originally known as Crooked Creek. Crooked Creek became a voting precinct on October 5, 1840. The first burial is given to John Bullock, in 1838. He came as a surveyor to this region in 1837. The need to establish a post office followed. Rufus M. Pickell, one of the local leaders, was appointed on February 3, 1843, postmaster for the land east of the [[Skunk River (Iowa)|Skunk River]] and south of [[Crooked Creek (Skunk River tributary)|Crooked Creek]]. Pickell was also a blacksmith by trade. Establishing a church followed, so the little log cabin Methodist Church was built in 1844. From 1851 to 1880, the town was known as  Marshall.<ref>http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iahenry/abandonedtowns.htm {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=June 2022}}</ref> Christian Roth Sr. erected a brewery on his homestead in 1856, which was completed at a cost of over $4,000. Until its closing by laws passed in 1884, it had done a prosperous business and had a capacity of 10 barrels a day. Confusion over the name [[Marshall, Iowa|Marshall]], [[Henry County, Iowa|Henry County]] and [[Marshalltown, Iowa]], especially with mail getting mixed, required a change in 1879, with the smaller town relinquishing its name and taking up a new one in 1880. In the 1879 Henry County History book the following names can be found in Jefferson Township: Burrows, Clifton, Cook, Davies, Everts, Farmer, Hull, Jessup, Johnson, Manning, Mathews, Moore, Noble, Ressel, Sayles, Shively, Turney, Walker, Wallbank, Wiggins, and Williams.