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$54,167
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Elkader, IA - History
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Welcome to the Elkader Home page. The Elkader Home page provides as much information as possible on Elkader. Knowing Elkader’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Elkader’s Home page, you will also find Elkader’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Elkader has a population of 1362. 47% of Elkader’s inhabitants are Male, and 53 are female. 48% of Elkader is married and 58.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $106,283, and the average rent is $737. Household median income in Elkader is $54,167, and the individual median income is $31,971. Elkader’s Ethnic is the following: White(93%), Multiple(5.4%), Hispanic(3.5%), Black(1.3%), Asian(0.4%).
The city is named after a Muslim Algerian leader, Abd al-Qadir al-Jaza'iri. When the community was platted in 1846, the founders, Timothy Davis, John Thompson and Chester Sage decided to name it for the young Algerian who was leading his people in resisting the French conquest of Algeria. The town is known for the Elkader Keystone Bridge over the Turkey River, said to be the largest stone arch bridge west of the Mississippi River.
It, and many of the local buildings, are made from locally quarried sandstone. The town's grocery store, Wilke's, is the oldest continuously operated grocery store west of the Mississippi, as well. The city is also home to the renovated Victorian-era Elkader Opera House, and the Turkey River Mall, a 29-room hotel converted into antique stores. The town featured in a WAMU World View documentary; "Couscous and cultural diplomacy", a documentary that focuses on an openly gay couple, one of whom is Algerian, who settled in Elkader and opened an Algerian-American restaurant.
The documentary describes how the couple have largely been accepted as part of the community yet wrestle with cultural adaptation, American identity, and small town politics, as well as many of the personal issues they experienced post 9/11.The city was one of many in Iowa affected by the Iowa Flood of 2008, with flood waters from the Turkey River reaching historic levels.
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