Dead Man’s Curve. A bend in the road named by the railroad and others because of the many deaths that occurred there.
Delta. A settlement formerly called Buhl and now named after the delta in the river.
Denniston House. Daniels, Denniston, and Company of New York offered to give this building to the state without charge if Cassville was chosen as the state capital. It wasn’t. Nelson Dewey later acquired the house as part of his vast properties, and he opened it as ‘Denniston House’ in 1854. It has been run as a hotel since that time.
Dickeyville. The settlement, started about 1849, was named after Mr. Dickey, an early settler. It was called Dickeysville, and later Dickeyville.
Elmo. In 1854 Emanuel Whitham built a large frame house at the junction of the Galena and Platteville and Mineral Point Roads and kept a tavern called the Junction House. In 1875 the railroad company built a depot called Junction, and the next year a post office was established. The name was changed by M. Y. Johnson, after the novel St. Elmo.