Winterset, Iowa

Madison County

19-86520

Winterset is a city and county seat of Madison County in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population amounted in 2000, according to a census to 4,768 inhabitants.

Geography

Winterset is located at the following location: 41 ° 20 ' 9 " N, 94 ° 0' 50 " W41.335833 - 94.013889.

According to the Federal Statistical Office of the United States, the city has a total area of 9.1 km ², all land.

Winterset is located southwest of the state capital of Des Moines about 45 minutes.

History

Winterset has been mapped for the first time in 1849. The Madison County Historical Society and the administration indicate that the city was founded this year. Winter Sets 150th anniversary of the city was celebrated in the summer of 1999. The families living establishing in the city now, as then, are: Bilderback, Danforth, Guiberson, Gentry, Berthold, Tidrick, Pitzer, Gaff, Berger, Ruby, Hornback, Dougherty, Wilhoit, Walkup, McPherson, Wilkinson, Gaskill, Houk and Hutchings.

Historical buildings

In Winterset is the built in 1880 Holliwell Covered Bridge. It has the status of a historic former covered road bridge and is located about 6.5 miles southeast of downtown. Today's pedestrian bridge was added on 28 August 1976 by the National Register of Historic Places with the number 76,000,789 as a historical monument.

Landmark

Winterset is very well known for its covered bridges. There are seven of these bridges in Madison County, sometimes also one in the city park of Winterset. The annual " Covered Bridge Festival " celebrates the bridges and the genetic material every second weekend in October. In 2006, the festival was held on 14 and 15 October.

Another well-known landmark is the " Clark Tower" in the city park of Winterset, from which one has a breathtaking view of the Middle River Valley area.

The Court of Madison County, the heart of the town square was built in 1868 and rebuilt after a fire in 1876 again.

Famous people

The actor John Wayne was born in 1907 in Winterset. His birth name was Marion Robert Morrison. The Morrison family lived until 1911 in the city. After 1911, the family moved to California because doctors said this would help to his father becoming healthy.

George Washington Carver lived in the mid-1880s and worked there as a chef for a hotel in the city center.

Fred Clarke, who succeeded in 1945 in the Baseball Hall of Fame, was born on October 3, 1872 in Winterset.

Henry JB Cummings, a U.S. lawmaker from Iowa and editor and owner of the " Madisonian Winterset " ( a newspaper ).