NEW HOPE

 New Hope was a Post Office established in section 21 or 22 of New Hope Township.   Henry Jeter was appointed Postmaster in the fall of 1855.  The Mail was delivered weekly on a mail route, lying between St. Joseph, Missouri and Winterset, Iowa.  The post office was discontinued about 1880.

Henry Jeter owned property in both sections 21 and 22 of New Hope Township, but it is not known definitively which section Jeter’s residence or the post office was in.