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Clare is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States. The population was 136 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] Clare was settled circa 1882 by immigrants from Clare County, Ireland .
Further construction occurred in the 1930s along West Fifth Street, following the construction of the Clare City Hall Building. The downtown as a whole prospered until the 1960s, when the freeway bypassed the city. However, despite economic struggles, the downtown area has retained a substantial amount of business activity. [2]
The first Mass in what is now Iowa City was celebrated by a frontier missionary, the Rev. Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli, OP, on December 20, 1840. It was attended by 28 people in a building that doubled as a private home and a hotel owned by Fred Haberstroh. The University of Iowa’s School of Business is currently on that location. [2]
The district contains a mix of commercial buildings, an opera house, a medical facility, residential and industrial structures. Civic buildings include the fire station, city hall, post office, and former high school (now a middle school). Watson's Grocery was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The Iowa State Fair had 1,182,682 people attendees in 2024, which broke the all-time fair attendance record of 1,170,375 set in 2019. This is also 48,724 more people than 2023, which saw 1,133,958 ...
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The first Mass in the church was celebrated on Palm Sunday in 1877. At the time the parish was part of the Diocese of Dubuque. It transferred to the Diocese of Davenport when it was established five years later. A rectory was built in the 1880s to the north of the church.
In the 1960s and 70s, a parish hall, kitchen, meeting rooms and restrooms were built in the basement of the church. The parish school was merged with the school at St. Boniface in the 1970s to form North Catholic School. [7] Eventually, all the Catholic grade schools in Clinton merged to form Prince of Peace School.