Independence, Iowa Independence, Iowa Location of Independence, Iowa Location of Independence, Iowa Independence is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Buchanan County, Iowa, United States. The populace was 5,966 in the 2010 census, a diminish from 6,014 in the 2000 census. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.22 square miles (16.11 km2), of which, 6.08 square miles (15.75 km2) is territory and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km2) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.6% White, 0.3% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.7% Asian, 0.2% from other competitions, and 1.1% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,521 homeholds of which 29.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 37.9% were non-families.
23.9% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 7.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 23.2% were from 25 to 44; 25.7% were from 45 to 64; and 19.7% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 97.97% White, 0.28% African American, 0.05% Native American, 0.76% Asian, 0.22% from other competitions, and 0.71% from two or more competitions.
There were 2,432 homeholds out of which 30.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.9% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 34.7% were non-families.
30.3% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 16.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Age spread: 25.4% under the age of 18, 7.3% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 22.5% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 5.0% of families and 7.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 8.5% of those under age 18 and 7.0% of those age 65 or over.
Independence was established in 1847 near the center of present-day Buchanan County.
The village of Independence had severaler than 15 persons when the governmental center of county was transferred there.
(Prior to the incorporation of Independence in 1864, a short-lived neighboring village, called New Haven, had grown up on the west side of the river, hence the name New Haven Mill.) The 1867 mill, now called the Wapsipinicon Mill, was a origin of electrical energy from 1915 to 1940.
A courthouse was assembled in 1857, on the east side of the town, on a site described at that time as "the highest tract of territory in the neighborhood," where offers "a fine view of the town/city of Independence, the Valley of the Wapsipinicon, and the encircling Country".
Among the town's distinct ions has been the long-term existence of the Independence State Hospital (formerly called the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane), positioned on a large, remote tract of territory on the west edge of town.
For a several years in the late 1880s and early 1890s, Independence was a nationally known horse-racing center, and was sometimes referred to as the "Lexington of the North".
These two stallions, which Williams titled Axtel and Allerton, went on the set world trotting records, with the result that Williams' earnings enabled him to publish a racing journal titled The American Trotter, to build a large three-story hotel and opera home called The Gedney, and to construct a figure-eight shaped race track on the west edge of town, on a large section of territory called Rush Park, where he also assembled a magnificent horse barn, his family mansion, and peripheral structures.
Today, the locale of Williams' race track (which was the initial site of the Buchanan County Fairgrounds) is a corn field.
In the years that followed the race track days, the town lost most of its importance when the barns terminal at Independence was pushed further west to Waterloo, Iowa.
While living in Paris, Stein became close friends with an American expatriate painter titled William Edwards Cook, who was born in Independence in 1881.
Her fondness for Iowa is also partly attributable to her close friendship with American writer Carl Van Vechten (who would turn into her literary executor), who had grown up in close-by Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
On a book publicity tour, she eagerly agreed to speak at Iowa City (on the second floor of what is now the Prairie Lights Bookstore), with the provision that she would be able to fly over Independence, to see Cook's place of birth from the air.
Cook himself had returned to Independence for an extended visit in 1925, to assist in settling the affairs of his father, an Independence lawyer who had died the year before.
When Cook returned to Paris, he used part of his inheritance to commission a young architect titled Le Corbusier to design, on the outskirts of Paris, what is now considered to be one of the first Cubist homes, called Maison Cook or Villa Cook.
The race track at Rush Park has also the distinct ion of being the site of the first one-mile bicycle speed record of under two minutes, which was set in 1892 at Independence by John S.
Among these are the Christian Seeland House and Brewery at 1010 4th Street Northeast (1873), an Italianate style mansion and brewery; Saint John's Roman Catholic Church at 2nd Street and 4th Avenue Northeast (1911); the Munson Building, formerly the Independence Free Public Library, at 210 2nd Street Northeast (1893 95); Saint James Episcopal Church on 2nd Avenue Northeast, just north of 2nd Street (1863, 1873); and the Depression-era United States Post Office Building at 2nd Street and 2nd Avenue Northeast (1934), not for its architecture, but because hanging inside in the lobby is a WPA mural from the 1930s, titled Postman in the Snow, painted by a former Independence resident titled Robert Tabor.
About 10 miles east of Independence, south of U.S.
Independence belongs to the Independence Community School District, which also includes the suburbs of Brandon and Rowley The precinct includes a K - 2nd undertaking school (East Elementary), a 3rd - 6th undertaking school (West Elementary) and a junior senior high school (7th-12th grade).
In 2011, the communities of Brandon, Rowley and Independence passed a bond popular vote to build a new $27,500,000 junior and senior high school that opened in the fall of 2013.
Independence State Hospital, a historic mental hospital positioned on the outskirts of the city.
Independence Public Library United States Enumeration Bureau.American Fact - Finder.
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