1,051
89%
$72,500
20.7%
America/Chicago
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Janesville, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Janesville a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Janesville Home page. The Janesville Home page provides as much information as possible on Janesville. Knowing Janesville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Janesville’s Home page, you will also find Janesville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Janesville has a population of 1051. 51.5% of Janesville’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.5 are female. 66.6% of Janesville is married and 88.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $176,508, and the average rent is $536. Household median income in Janesville is $72,500, and the individual median income is $41,346. Janesville’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%), Hispanic(1.7%).
Janesville was founded in 1849 by John T. Barrick, a Quaker and abolitionist who had relocated to Iowa from Ohio. According to the book, "The Janesvillians, Volumes I and II" by Maxine Leonard, John T. Barrick built the first mill and frame house in the area. He platted the town of Janesville, which he named in honor of his wife, Jane McPherson Barrick.It has been established that a tunnel once existed under the business district of Janesville.
The tunnel ran between basements and below buildings on both sides of Janesville's Main Street, crossing below the street in the center of town and continuing westward to the Cedar River. One branch of the tunnel continued northward, connecting to the site of Fort John, a shelter built to protect settlers during the Ho-Chunk uprising in June, 1854.
The tunnel terminated in the basement of the home of Abel Crail, who later served in Union Army in the American Civil War, and was the first Commander of Janesville Post No. 172, Grand Army of the Republic. According to local legend, the Barricks and other townsfolk sympathetic to their cause aided in the escape of runaway slaves as part of the Underground Railroad.
Slaves were moved through Janesville from Grinnell and continued to Decorah and into southeastern Minnesota. The tunnel has since been filled in and no longer exists, so some say. It is questioned by others whether or not this is true. People claim to have seen these tunnels and that in fact they still exist to this day.Janesville was a farming community with a population of 311 in 1900, according to the Iowa Data Center [1].
The town's population increased to just 445 by 1950. Due to its proximity to Waterloo-Cedar Falls, the population of Janesville increased to 840 by 1980, when the town was referred to as a "bedroom community". During the farm crisis and economic recession that hit Northeast Iowa in the 1980s, Janesville's population declined slightly.
Since the mid-1990s, with the completion of the four lane bypass U.S. Highway 218 / Iowa Highway 27, known as the "Avenue of the Saints", [2] Janesville's population is again increasing. New residential subdivisions continue to develop within the city of Janesville and the surrounding area. [3]
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