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145
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$31,528
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Ayrshire, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Ayrshire a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Ayrshire Home page. The Ayrshire Home page provides as much information as possible on Ayrshire. Knowing Ayrshire’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Ayrshire’s Home page, you will also find Ayrshire’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Ayrshire has a population of 145. 51.7% of Ayrshire’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.3 are female. 39.3% of Ayrshire is married and 72% own their own home. The Average Home price is $26,681, and the average rent is $558. Household median income in Ayrshire is $31,528, and the individual median income is $31,250. Ayrshire’s Ethnic is the following: White(91%), Multiple(9%).
In the 1880s the Des Moines and Fort Dodge Railroad (later part of Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway), having reached Fort Dodge, began building to the northwest. In October 1882 the rails reached the location of Ayrshire, and a depot was built the following month. The railroad had acquired 80 acres for a townsite, and by 1883 several businesses had been established.Ayrshire was incorporated on September 20, 1895.At one time it had two banks, two grocery stores, blacksmith shop, livery stable, creamery, hotel, at least two barber shops; Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches; five gas stations, grain elevator, two cafes, a locker plant, a pharmacy, a lumber yard, two beer halls and several other businesses.
It had both a Catholic and a public high school. The Catholic high school closed in 1947. The lower grades closed in 1968. The public school closed in the spring of 1982. The public school mascot was the Ayrshire Beavers. In 1972, the town drew national attention for having the youngest mayor in America.
Jody Smith was nineteen when he was elected mayor.The rail line, by then part of the Chicago and North Western Railway, was abandoned in the 1980s, and torn up.The town celebrated its Quasquicentennial in 2007.
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