Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Brown County Courthouse, located at 601 Oregon Street in Hiawatha, is the seat of government of Brown County, Kansas. Hiawatha has been the county seat since 1858. The courthouse was built from 1925 to 1926 by contractor Harvey E. Wood. Architect William Earl Hulse & Company of Hutchinson, Kansas designed the courthouse in the Neoclassical ...
Hiawatha is governed by the Mayor with city council form of government, utilizing several departments, boards, and commissions. The recently built City Hall (dedicated in 2007) is located at 101 Emmons Street Hiawatha, Iowa 52233.
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.
Brown County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. [1]
Hiawatha Township covers an area of 63.57 square miles (164.6 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Hiawatha (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Mount Hope.
Hiawatha was a company town. The United States Fuel Company, which owned the Hiawatha mine and had its headquarters there, essentially ran the town. [3] After the 1940s, production began to drop and people moved away. The population fell from 439 in 1960, to 43 in 1990. The city was disincorporated on November 20, 1992.
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.
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.