Region: Prairies and Lakes
This town in eastern Lee County was originally called Brown's Mill for a
sawmill built by Joseph S. Brown. Soon, British Americans and Polish, Czech,
German and German-Wend immigrants arrived and settled near the mill. The U.S.
government opened a post office in 1877, and settlers deposited outgoing mail,
along with a dime in a small box for weekly delivery of mail to nearby Giddings.
The Brown's Mill post office closed in December 1883; however, when it reopened
a few months later, confusion with Brown's Mill and Brownsville caused the town
to be renamed Dime Box.