CUBA

Cuba was laid out in the spring of 1884, although in 1866 homesteaders first came to the area. Cuba it is said chose its name after a visitor who had traveled to the Caribbean shared stories of the fight for freedom from Spain. The town of Cuba moved twice before settling in its present locale. The first building was a school which comprised a log cabin with a dirt floor and a sod roof. Cuba moved locations in the early 1870's because town learders decided it needed a new school with a better location so the town moved two miles west. In 1884 the B & M Railroad ran a line a few miles south, so the town moved again.