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Welcome to the Le Mars Home page. The Le Mars Home page provides as much information as possible on Le Mars. Knowing Le Mars’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Le Mars’s Home page, you will also find Le Mars’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Le Mars has a population of 10012. 47.1% of Le Mars’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 59.9% of Le Mars is married and 71.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $166,810, and the average rent is $766. Household median income in Le Mars is $68,306, and the individual median income is $36,405. Le Mars’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.6%), Hispanic(7%), Black(2.8%), Other(2.7%), Asian(0.9%), Native(0.8%), Multiple(0.2%).


In 1925, Fred H. Wells Jr. and his sons had opened an ice cream manufacturing plant there. However, the plant (and the Wells name) was purchased by Fairmount Ice Cream in 1928. In 1935, Fred and his sons sought to begin selling ice cream again, but could no longer use their name. They therefore sponsored a “Name That Ice Cream” contest in the Sioux City Journal.


The winner of the $25 prize suggested "Blue Bunny" because his son had enjoyed seeing blue bunnies in department store windows at Easter.Dominating the skyline of present-day Le Mars is Wells' Blue Bunny Dairy's 900,000-square-foot (84,000 m2) plant with a 12-story tall refrigeration tower called the "South Ice Cream Plant" – so-named because it is on the south side of town.


As of 2005, the plant employed 1,000 and produces 75 million gallons of frozen treats, the milk coming mainly coming from three large Iowa dairy farms. The size of this plant has led to speculation that the company is the world's largest family-owned and managed dairy processor and the world's largest manufacturer of ice cream in one location, with Le Mars claiming to be the "Ice Cream Capital of the World".Wells is best known for its various sweet products, including Blue Bunny, Bomb Pop, Blue Ribbon, and Chilly Cow.


To showcase its sweet treats, Le Mars has an ice cream parlor, which was remodeled in 2019, and includes an old fashioned ice cream serving station, museum displays, roof-top seating, and gift shop. The ice cream parlor in Le Mars is one of the largest tourist attractions in the state of Iowa. Le Mars hosts an annual celebration "Ice Cream Days" every year in late June which includes many activities such as ice cream socials, concerts, art exhibitions, parades, and more.


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