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The following year the 40-acre (16 ha) mill pond was drained. The local Izaak Walton League desired to create a 120-acre (49 ha) lake as early as 1926. They were able to buy options for 254 acres (103 ha) in 1933. The City of Hampton and several civic organizations bought the property the following year and presented it to the State of Iowa.
Beeds Lake State Park; H. Hampton Double Square Historic District; S. ... (Hampton, Iowa) This page was last edited on 1 November 2016, at 03:10 (UTC). ...
Junction of Iowa Highways 3 and 134 42°46′15″N 93°14′21″W / 42.770833°N 93.239167°W / 42.770833; -93.239167 ( Beeds Lake State Park, Civilian Conservation Corps Hampton
• Land: 4.42 sq mi (11.46 km 2) ... Climate data for Hampton, Iowa, 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1893–present ... Beeds Lake State Park is located a few miles ...
The town of Hampton was laid out by H. P. Allen, who was the county surveyor, in June 1856. The original plat was eight blocks by eight blocks in the shape of an "L". Near the center of the "L" was the two-block, or double, square. While many county seats in Iowa have a courthouse square, the double square is a rarity. [2]
Iowa State Preserves tend to be small parcels of land with some historic or environmental significance. The arrangement is alphabetic. This is based on information found at a website maintained by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. A.F. Miller State Preserve; Ames High Prairie State Preserve; Anderson Prairie State Preserve
In a $50 million purchase, the state’s Department of Natural Resources and several partners secured more than 10,000 acres of land in Hampton and Jasper counties to serve as a public heritage ...
The Franklin County Courthouse in Hampton, Iowa, United States was built in 1891. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 as a part of the County Courthouses in Iowa Thematic Resource. [1] In 2003 it was included as a contributing property in the Hampton Double Square Historic District. [2]