Creston, a town of Union county, Iowa, 115 miles W. of Ottumwa. It is connected by railway with Burlington, Chicago, and St Joseph, and has large machine-shops and railway-carriage works. Pop. (1870) 411; (1890) 7200.—There is a smaller town of Creston in Wyoming, and a third in Illinois.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 558
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