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Centerville, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Centerville a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Centerville Home page. The Centerville Home page provides as much information as possible on Centerville. Knowing Centerville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Centerville’s Home page, you will also find Centerville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Centerville has a population of 5433. 45.6% of Centerville’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.4 are female. 46.1% of Centerville is married and 64.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $71,405, and the average rent is $637. Household median income in Centerville is $32,689, and the individual median income is $21,218. Centerville’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.9%), Hispanic(2.8%), Multiple(1.8%), Black(1.1%), Asian(0.2%).
Centerville experienced its peak population in the early 1900s as the popularity of coal peaked. After that point, as usage dwindled, the coal industry that had been the community's life blood collapsed. In the 1950s and 1960s a civic movement to promote new industries began. This effort culminated in the building of Rathbun Dam, near the city of Rathbun, Iowa, forming Rathbun Lake, known as "Iowa's Ocean", that was dedicated on July 31, 1971 by President Richard M.
Nixon. In June 2006 the Centerville Daily Iowegian reported that the city's largest employer, a Rubbermaid plant, that opened in Centerville in 1985, would shut down in September 2006 displacing 500 workers. In 2007, the former Rubbermaid building was purchased by Lee Container, a manufacturer of products made of high density polyethylene plastic resin.The Southern Iowa Railroad was an electric interurban connecting Centerville to Moravia with a branch to Mystic.
The railroad disbanded in 1967. The Appanoose County Community Railroad (APNC) was a short-line railroad founded in 1984, operating on discarded former rail lines, and connecting to the BNSF railroad in Albia. The APNC was succeeded by the Iowa Southern Railway in 2016 and still provides rail service to the city.
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