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Hiawatha was founded in 1857, making it one of the oldest towns in the state. [6] John M. Coe, John P. Wheller, and Thomas J. Drummond were instrumental in organizing the city, and the site was staked out February 17, 1857. Hiawatha became the Brown County Seat in 1858, and the first school opened in 1870.
Hiawatha is a city in Linn County, Iowa, United States. It is a suburb located in the northwestern side of Cedar Rapids and is part of the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 7,183 at the time of the 2020 census , an increase from 6,480 in 2000 .
Aime Wichtendahl is an American politician who was the first transgender woman to be elected to public office in Iowa.In 2024, Wichdendahl became the first transgender person elected to the Iowa General Assembly, representing House District 80 in the Cedar Rapids area. [1]
Fay Marvin Clark (born 1907, La Crosse, Wisconsin, died 1991) was a real-estate developer, entrepreneur and politician.He developed several plots of land in Hiawatha, Iowa, and became mayor of the town from 1950 to 1958, and again from 1961 to 1963.
KNZA-FM was originally built by Mike Carter in 1977, in a field 6 miles south of Hiawatha, Kansas.Carter and his staff stressed personalized rapport with the listening audience, with a country music and farm information format, and quickly built a faithful audience at a time when few cars or homes had FM radios.
Hiawatha Township is a civil township of Schoolcraft County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,305 in 2020. [ 3 ] With a total land area of 277.43 square miles (718.54 km 2 ), Hiawatha Township is the third largest municipality in the state after McMillan Township and Marenisco Township .
Hiawatha is an unincorporated community and near-ghost town, formerly a coal mining town in southwestern Carbon County, Utah, United States. While the town's former corporate limits were almost entirely within Carbon County, the western part was within the Manti-La Sal National Forest and a very small part extended west into Emery County.
A post office was established at Hiawatha in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1933. [2] The town was likely named after The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [3] The town's name was originally "Neel" but was changed in 1889. [4] Nobody lives there.