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The company was founded by Forest City, Iowa businessman John K. Hanson in February 1958. At the time, the town, located in Winnebago County, Iowa, was undergoing an economic downturn, so Hanson and a group of community leaders convinced a California firm, Modernistic Industries, to open a travel trailer factory in a bid to revive the local economy.
As a political institution, Boone County was formed in March 3, 1836 out of Winnebago County. It was named for Kentucky frontiersman Daniel Boone. [2] The first non-Native American settlers arrived in what is now Boone County in 1835. They arrived as a result of the end of the Black Hawk War as well as the completion of the Erie Canal.
Winnebago County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 285,350 making it the seventh most populous county in Illinois behind Cook County and its five surrounding collar counties. Its county seat is Rockford. [1] Winnebago County is the central county of the Rockford metropolitan ...
The community was named after John Roe, an immigrant from Ireland who settled on 267 acres (1.08 km 2) in 1883, on part of which Roeland Park now stands.The Roe Home was built in 1891 and razed in 1958 to make room for the interchange at Roe Boulevard and Shawnee Mission Parkway.
Winnebago can refer to: The exonym of the Ho-Chunk tribe of Native North Americans with reservations in Nebraska, Iowa, and Wisconsin Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, a federally recognized tribe group in the state; The Winnebago language of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe; Winnebago (chicken), a 19th-century American chicken breed
Boone County, Nebraska; Boone County, West Virginia; USS Boone County This page was last edited on 18 June 2024, at 21:49 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Winnebago County is the name of three counties in the United States: Winnebago County, Illinois; Winnebago County, Iowa; Winnebago County, Wisconsin
Winnebago County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 census, the population was 171,730.Its county seat is Oshkosh. [2] It was named for the historic Winnebago people, a federally recognized Native American tribe now known as the Ho-Chunk Nation.