Company M (which also included residents from Montgomery County) had 160 casualties among its 250 members 52 men were killed in action. In the American Civil War, the area provided more Union troops per capita than any other in the state.
The community suffered, in a national per capita comparison, a disproportionate number of casualties in the Civil War and World War II. His body was later recovered and interred in Evergreen Cemetery in Red Oak. On February 15, 1898, he perished in the explosion that sank the USS Maine (ACR-1) in the harbor of Havana, Cuba. Merritt, born in Red Oak on April 12, 1872, graduated third in his class from the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland on July 1, 1897. The depot is one of nine places in Montgomery County on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Montgomery County, Iowa.ĭarwin R. Today it is the Restored BN and World War II Museum celebrating the community's disproportionate casualties during World War II and other wars, significant military heritage and community pride in service to country. Preservation efforts for the depot have been enacted since 1993. In 1903 a depot was opened by the railroad. The Junction name was dropped in 1901 although the community continues to celebrate its history each summer in Junction Days. The junction was a line off the main Chicago to Council Bluffs, Iowa line that went to Nebraska City, Nebraska and on to Lincoln, Nebraska. The community was named Red Oak Junction by the railroad on March 20, 1876. In 1869 the community was officially founded when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (called the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad at the time) arrived.
It is on the National Register of Historic Places. That courthouse remained in place until the current Montgomery County Courthouse was built in 1891. In 1865 it became the official county seat of Montgomery County and the courthouse which had been in the middle of the county seven miles northeast in Frankfort, Iowa was towed to the community during a snow storm. The first settlers arrived there in the 1850s. Red Oak derives its name from Red Oak Creek which flows through the community and was noted for the red oaks on its banks. Restored BN Depot and World War II Museum at night
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