The town of Cushing held it's election to incorporate it into Woodbury County on Janurary 14, 1892 and officially was filed on December 6, 1892.
Cushing is located near the county line, in section one in township numbered eighty-eight ( Rock Twp. ) in Woodbury County. The original part of the town was purchased by Blair Lot and Land Company. The sale was signed and sealed on May 10, 1883, by P.E. Hall - register. It was recorded on June 23, 1883. This part of town was composed of block one through nine, or what we would think of today as everything between old highway 20 and the north edge of town and as far east as the houses on the east side of Valley Street ( just the north part of old highway 20 ) and west to the houses on Hill Street which is the houses on the east side of the street both north and south of the Methodist Church to the highway.
Cushing was first a town called Penrose, but later was renamed Cushing in honor of L. Cushing Kimball of Boston, Massachusetts. It is belived that L. Cushing Kimbell was a brother of Davis Kimball, who was the president of Nashua and Lowell Railroad Company and was director of Chicago and Northwest Railroad Company. In 1889, Kimball and McNamara originized a railroad contractor and builders in Siox City, It is believed that L. Cushing Kimbell may have been named after his mother, whose maiden name was Cushing. |