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Washington was founded in 1839 as the county seat of the newly established Washington County. In 1854 it became the home of a United Presbyterian College, which was dissolved in 1864. As of 2014, the town has celebrated its 175th anniversary, only 5 years behind the oldest city in Iowa, Dubuque, Iowa .
Washington was platted in 1839 as the county seat for Washington County. Central Park, the town square, is the earliest contributing resource having been platted with the original town. It is the contributing site and contains the two contributing objects: the 1931 Civil War monument and the 1939 fountain.
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 census , the population was 22,565. [ 1 ] The county seat is Washington . [ 2 ]
Location of Washington County in Iowa. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Iowa. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Iowa, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
The H.A. Baxter Coal Company Historic District, also known as C.E. Phillips Coal and Grain and Freshwaters Coal and Supply, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [1]
What was Iowa before it became a state and how has Iowa’s boundaries changed? An 1845 map of Iowa depicting a proposed northern border. The federal government established Iowa as a territory in ...
The West Side Residential Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Washington, Iowa, United States.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [1]
A Culinary History of Iowa: Sweet Corn, Pork Tenderloins, Maid-Rites & More (Arcadia, 2018) Moe, Edward O., and Carl Cleveland Taylor. Culture of a contemporary rural community: Irwin, Iowa (US Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1942) online history and status in 1940 of Irwin, Iowa, a small town in Shelby County.