Clinton, Iowa Clinton Clinton is positioned in the US Clinton - Clinton County Clinton Clinton is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Clinton County, Iowa, United States. The populace was 26,885 as of 2010.
Clinton, along with De - Witt, Iowa (also positioned in Clinton County), was titled in honor of the sixth governor of New York, De - Witt Clinton.
Clinton is the principal town/city of the Clinton Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is coterminous with Clinton County. Clinton was incorporated on January 26, 1857. View of Clinton on the left side of the Mississippi river and its neighbor, Fulton, Illinois on the right side of the river as seen from 35,000 feet Among the first pioneer of European origin in the Clinton region was Elijah Buell, who assembled a log cabin on July 25, 1835 and established the town of Lyons, titled after the French town/city of the same name.
Lyons later consolidated with Clinton.
Clinton was platted as the town of New York in 1836 by Joseph Bartlett. In March 1837, Noble and Sarah Gregory Perrin purchased 136 acres (0.55 km2) of territory in what is now Clinton and raised their family in a cabin positioned approximately at the foot of the barns bridge. Their earliest daughter, Valeria, married Dr.
Mary Perrin, born September 26, 1837, was the first female child of European lineage born in Clinton County.
The Iowa Land Company was organized on May 26, 1855 and on July 4, bought Bartlett's tract and retitled it Clinton, with respect to De - Witt Clinton, two-time governor of New York and one of the driving forces behind the assembly of the Erie Canal.
On November 10, 1855, the first plat of the town/city of Clinton was signed.
In January 1864, assembly was started on the span from Little Rock Island to the Iowa shore and was instead of on January 6, 1865.
The first enhance school in Clinton was conducted in a log home near the W.J.
Morris Memorial Bridge in 1975), followed by the Clinton High Bridge in 1892 (replaced by the Gateway Bridge in 1956).
Between the 1850s and 1900, the metros/cities of Lyons and Clinton quickly became centers of the lumber trade and were regarded as the "Lumber Capital of the World." Huge log rafts were floated down the river from Wisconsin and Minnesota, cut into lumber at Clinton, then shipped to the burgeoning communities via the river and the barns s.
In the 1880s and 1890s Clinton boasted 13 resident millionaires, more millionaires per capita than any other town or town/city in the nation.
In 1877 the noted pianist Carl Lachmund established the German Conservatorium of Music in Clinton.
The largest, most elaborate party ever held in Clinton jubilated the debut of Emma Lamb and the twentieth wedding anniversary of her parents, Artemus and Henrietta Sabrina Smith Lamb on October 13, 1885.
The town/city still boasts a number of magnificent Victorian mansions, including the Curtis Mansion, now the home of the Clinton Women's Club.
The American Protective Association (APA) was established in Clinton on March 13, 1887 by Attorney Henry Francis Bowers.
In 1941, with Howard Judd as coach, Clinton High School won the first of its 11 state championships in swimming. This string encompassed five straight championships between 1954 and 1958 and produced 39 individual All Americans and 14 Individual All American Relay Teams (The Howard Judd Story Reception Program June 5, 1966).
Clinton's athletic successes were added to in 1953 when St.
View of downtown Clinton looking north Other great athletic triumphs were accomplished by the 1964 Clinton High School boys' baseball team winning the State Championship, the 1991 Clinton Giants winning the Midwest League baseball championship and by the 1992 Clinton High School boys' basketball team (referred to as the '92 Crew) winning the State Championship.
In 2005, Clinton, along with Coon Rapids, Iowa and Sioux City, was awarded one of the inaugural Iowa Great Places designations. This award brought to Clinton a $1 million state budget allocation for cultural and landscape improvements along the city's riverfront.
In January 2011, Clinton opened the world's first-ever site of noted rapper Flavor Flav's fast food chain, Flav's Fried Chicken.
This was due to the fact that Flav's company partner, Nick Cimino, is a Clinton native and felt that the restaurant's opening would be good for the community. The restaurant was closed down after a mere four months due to low staff retention and bad checks, among other concerns.
Clinton is positioned at 41 50 49 N 90 12 26 W (41.846863, -90.207330). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 38.01 square miles (98.45 km2), of which 35.15 square miles (91.04 km2) is territory and 2.86 square miles (7.41 km2) is water. Clinton is on the shore of the Mississippi River and is the easternmost town/city in Iowa.
The Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge passes through Clinton along the river.
Other parks are Dewitt Park, Root Park, Southside Park, Edwin P Neubauer Park, River View Stadium, and Four Square Park.
Clinton has the First White Settler in Clinton County Historical Marker.
Route 67 (Great River Road), and Iowa Highway 136 pass through Clinton.
Clinton has a municipal airport (Clinton Municipal Airport, KCWI) that serves the general aviation community.
Clinton Community College Clinton Lumber - Kings, see , a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Seattle Mariners, that plays in the Midwest League.
Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, see The Clinton County Courthouse, National Register of Historic Places The Clinton Public Library, National Register of Historic Places The Van Allen Building, a National Historic Landmark designed by Louis Sullivan, was instead of in 1914 Clinton County Courthouse, constructed from 1892-1897 by architects Stanley Mansfield and Josiah Rice in Romanesque Revival style.
Clinton Public Library, financed by Andrew Carnegie and assembled 1903-1904 from the design of the Chicago architectural firm of Patton & Miller.
City National Bank (First National Bank), designed by John Morrell & Son in the Neoclassical style and constructed in 1911-1912 The Clinton Herald Monday December 8, 1930 p.
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Moeszinger-Marquis (Armstrong) Building, designed by Josiah Rice and constructed in 1891 by William Bentley for the Clinton Produce Company.
Acquired the building for its wholesale hardware business, which in turn passed to its successor company, the Moeszinger-Marquis Hardware Company in 1912.
It consolidated with the other four Clinton churches in 1990 to form Jesus Christ, Prince of Peace Parish.
Cynthia Leonard, suffragist, writer, mother of Lillian Russell, lived in Clinton Captan Jack Wyly, Louisiana attorney and politician graduated from Clinton High School, ca.
1869-1873, 1873-1895, 1895-?, primary lumber interest, town of Lyons, and Clinton Clinton Produce Company, c.
Clinton Lumber - Kings, present, Class A minor league Midwest League team affiliated with the Seattle Mariners Clinton Herald, 1855-present, daily journal now owned by Community Newspaper Holdings a b "City Data website".
Clinton, Iowa - Our Community The Clinton Herald, Monday, January 21, 1924 p.6 The Clinton Morning News, Wednesday, October 15, 1885 Clinton High School, Clinton, Iowa, USA "The Great Flood of 1965 At Clinton, Iowa: A Pictorial Review", KROS Radio News Department Iowa Great Places "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Mississippi River Trail".
"Clinton - Our Community - History".
Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Ashford University 400 North Bluff Blvd., Clinton, IA 52732 Clinton Herald (September 17, 2009).
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Wolfe (1911) Wolfe's History of Clinton County, Iowa, v.
BJ Kleven (1946) The Mississippi River Logging Company, in Minnesota History (magazine), Sept, pp.
"Van Allen and Company Department Store".
Clinton County Historical Society (Author), 2003, Clinton Iowa (Images of America series), Arcadia Publishing (ISBN 0738 - 523496), e.g.
The Clinton Daily Herald Saturday September 5, 1891 page 6 The Biographical Record of Clinton County Iowa S.J.
Wolfe's History of Clinton County Iowa B.F.
History of Clinton County Iowa Clinton County Historical Society 1976 The Clinton Herald, February 5, 2007, "Why Have Odor Complaints Declined?" Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clinton, Iowa.
Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article about Clinton, Iowa.
Clinton Regional Development Corporation Clinton's Open Forum Home City Data Comprehensive Statistical Data and more about Clinton, Iowa Municipalities and communities of Clinton County, Iowa, United States County seat: Clinton Andover Calamus Camanche Charlotte Clinton De - Witt Delmar Goose Lake Grand Mound Lost Nation Low Moor Maquoketa Toronto Welton Wheatland This populated place also has portions in an adjoining county or counties
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