In 1866 the budding village of Iberia had a log school house, four frame buildings, and a cemetery, and the settlement became the center of Stark Township, organized that same year. Iberia crossroads was named for a community in Ohio because many of the first settlers came from that state, while Stark took its name from a Revolutionary War general of Massachusetts. Eastern Yankees formed the majority of the earliest settlers in this section, which was dedicated school land. A great future was anticipated for Iberia, and by 1871 the Winona - St. Peter Railroad was building westward toward New Ulm, with expectations that the line would pass through Iberia where a preliminary survey placed it. By fall, however, the plans changed and the tracks were laid to the north through the site of the present city of Sleepy Eye, so the town plat for Iberia was never filed. Into the 1900’s Iberia remained a useful, convenient trading center with two blacksmiths, a general store, bootmaker, a merchandise-liquor store, saw mill, grist mill, and post office. The rural community was nicknamed “Brimstone Corners” because it was such a “lively little berg,” and it had all the characteristics of a typical western borderland town: fights, murder, death by Indians, elopements, robberies, political conventions, celebrations, organizations, grasshoppers, scandals, epidemics, births, marriages, and deaths. Iberia prospered for a time but grew little, and by the mid 1880’s its usefulness was fading. Today the business places, mills, and school are gone, and only a few homes and the cemetery remain of what was once busy, little Iberia.