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Clarinda, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Clarinda a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Clarinda Home page. The Clarinda Home page provides as much information as possible on Clarinda. Knowing Clarinda’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Clarinda’s Home page, you will also find Clarinda’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Clarinda has a population of 5371. 59.2% of Clarinda’s inhabitants are Male, and 40.8 are female. 42.6% of Clarinda is married and 63.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $85,614, and the average rent is $612. Household median income in Clarinda is $48,309, and the individual median income is $25,870. Clarinda’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.5%), Hispanic(4.5%), Black(4.1%), Multiple(3.6%), Asian(2.3%), Native(0.9%), Pacific(0.4%), Other(0.2%).
Clarinda was founded in 1851, and incorporated on December 8, 1866. Many stories are told of such notables as Jesse James frequently passing through. The town is named for Clarinda Buck, who according to legend carried water to the surveyors while Page County was first being surveyed.The best known national firm in Clarinda for many decades was Berry's Seed Company, a mail order farm seed distribution business founded in 1885 at Clarinda by A.
A. Berry. Berry's Seed Company diversified into retail stores in the 1950s, but the stores were sold off over the following decade, and today the company, known as Berry's Garden Center, operates from its one remaining retail outlet in Danville, Illinois.In 1943, during World War II, an internment camp designed for 3,000 prisoners of war with sixty barracks and a 150-bed hospital was built in Clarinda.
German prisoners were the first to arrive at Camp Clarinda, followed in 1945 by Italian and Japanese POWs.The southeast area of Clarinda was once dubbed "Gun Town" and remains known by that name today. A noted author wrote, "In the twenties and thirties, Clarinda seemed to be two separate towns: Guntown and Uptown.
In the middle of the square was, and remains, the courthouse. The four blocks surrounding the square are filled with businesses. Guntown was a town all its own. The 700 block of East Garfield was a solid block of businesses--grocery stores, barber, a Chinese restaurant, another restaurant on a corner, a rug factory, a large grocery, the Swifts packing plant, and railroad tracks with freight depot and roundhouse to turn trains around."
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