Beckwith is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Iowa.

[2] Beckwith was founded on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (CB&Q).

The items were written by Beckwith resident and Ledger correspondent Jennie Prince, who had to convince Ledger editor W.W. Junkin that women could write news stories.

Originally written every other week, the stories were eventually published nearly every day by the 1930s, as the Ledger gradually became a daily paper.

[10] Beckwith lies on an Amtrak line, and in 2018 was one of four Iowa sites selected for an upgrade to a centralized traffic control crossover, as part of a federal grant.