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Atlantic, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Atlantic a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Atlantic Home page. The Atlantic Home page provides as much information as possible on Atlantic. Knowing Atlantic’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Atlantic’s Home page, you will also find Atlantic’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Atlantic has a population of 6600. 48.7% of Atlantic’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.3 are female. 51.2% of Atlantic is married and 63.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $131,434, and the average rent is $607. Household median income in Atlantic is $46,625, and the individual median income is $27,151. Atlantic’s Ethnic is the following: White(96%), Hispanic(3.8%), Black(1.2%), Other(0.9%), Multiple(0.6%), Asian(0.5%), Native(0.5%), Pacific(0.3%).
Atlantic was founded in October 1868 by Franklin H. Whitney, B.F. Allen, John P. Cook, and others. While historians cannot agree on how Atlantic got its name, local legend tells that the founding fathers estimated that the town was about halfway between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, so it led them to flip a coin and, clearly, Atlantic won.
The nearby Rock Island Railroad was important in deciding the actual location of the town, and to this day, the old depot sits at the north end of Chestnut Street. Today, the depot serves as the offices of the Chamber of Commerce.A log cabin stands in Atlantic City Park with a historical plaque bearing the following inscription: A Link With the Past This 14 by 18 foot log cabin was built by John Gingery in 1863 in what was called Five Mile Grove located two miles northeast of Atlantic.
John left Stark County where he had been raised and has become a school teacher. He was twenty-six years old and arrived just as Cass County was being organized. He was hired by Cass County to do their clerical work in organizing the county. John Gingery married Mary Hyatt of Audubon County, Iowa on April 28, 1866.
Ten children were born to them and all were born in this log house except the tenth and youngest child. This cabin may also have been used as the first school house in Pymosa Township until 1868 when a separate school building was erected. The cabin was on the Gipple farm northeast of Atlantic when the Atlantic Rotary Club became interested in preserving and restoring it as the club's Bi-Centennial project in 1976.
The Rotarians and Boy Scout troop 60 dismantled the cabin and numbered each log for rebuilding purposes. The Atlantic Soroptomists furnished the cabin much as it was originally furnished. It was the hope of the Atlantic Rotary Club that this cabin would typify the early history in Cass County and in the State of Iowa. Another story told about Atlantic is the way the main street was located.
Someone asked Whitney where it should be placed. He marked the center at current day 6th and Chestnut and then plowed two furrows 100 feet (30 m) apart all the way up to the railroad, just north of Second Street.Since 1929, Atlantic is noted for the Atlantic Coca-Cola Bottling Company, which bottles and distributes drinks from The Coca-Cola Company to Iowa and parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Missouri.Atlantic has one high school, The Atlantic High School, home of the Atlantic Trojans.
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