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Winnebago County is a county in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,679. [1] The county seat is Forest City. [2] The county was founded in 1847 and named after the Native American tribe. It is the location of the motor homes manufacturer Winnebago Industries.
Forest City is a city in Hancock and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Iowa, and the county seat of Winnebago County. [3] The population was 4,285 in the 2020 census, a decline from the 4,362 population in 2000. [4]
The Winnebago and Potawatomi, who had only a short time before been removed to Iowa, were yet again removed and had left Iowa by 1848 and 1846, respectively. [23] The last remaining group, the Sioux, ceded their last Iowa land via an 1851 treaty with the United States, which they completed in 1852.
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The Charles J. Thompson House, now known as the Mansion Museum, is a historic building located in Forest City, Iowa, United States. It was designed in the Georgian Revival style by William Jean Beauley of the Chicago architectural firm of Peabody and Beauley. The house was built for a local banker named Charles J. Thompson.
Because early county records were destroyed in an 1861 fire it is difficult to determine where court proceedings were held in Winnebago County's early years. [2] County voters petitioned for a $20,000 courthouse to be built, but little work was done on the building.
The Winnebago Bend Wildlife Area was made up of land illegally condemned in 1970. Soon it will be returned to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. 1,600 acres of land in western Iowa is being returned ...
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