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Thompson, IA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Thompson a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Thompson Home page. The Thompson Home page provides as much information as possible on Thompson. Knowing Thompson’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Thompson’s Home page, you will also find Thompson’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Thompson has a population of 496. 53.6% of Thompson’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.4 are female. 53% of Thompson is married and 85.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $87,791, and the average rent is $669. Household median income in Thompson is $43,295, and the individual median income is $26,806. Thompson’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.4%), Hispanic(8.1%), Multiple(1.6%).
Thompson was platted in 1892. It was incorporated as a city in 1894.A post office opened in 1890, and rural carrier service was established in 1904. The Thompson Courier began publication in 1894, and is still in business. In 1938, the paper expanded operations with the purchase of the Rake Register, becoming the Thompson Courier and Rake Register.Thompson's first telephone switchboard was installed in the home of Dr.
G.M. Lee in 1894. Groups of farmers joined together to establish their own small phone companies, and 12 systems shared the town's joint switchboard and party lines. By the 1940s, the Switchboard Company had purchased its own building, and the Thompson Telephone Company and Thompson Telephone Cooperative were formed.
In 1951, the local Rural Electrification Association released a movie featuring several Thompson residents, who described the struggles for adequate phone service in Winnebago County, until a federal Rural Electrification Administrationtelephone loan finally enabled the Winnebago Cooperative Telephone Association to provide modern dial service.The Thompson Cooperative Creamery was chartered in 1897.
The creamery consolidated the earlier milk station operations at Amund corner, Vinje, and three other locations, which used large volume separators to skim off cream. Cooling and churning were powered by a steam boiler until electricity was installed.The Farmers Cooperative Elevator Company formed in 1907, as farmers were dissatisfied with the prices received at the three independent grain elevators.The Thompson Fire Department built its fire hall in 1925.Thompson was without a bank for over a year after the First National Bank shut its doors on June 26, 1932, and the State Bank of Thompson and First National Bank of Thompson failed.
The Peoples State Bank opened in Thompson on August 1, 1933.The Thompson Public Library was established in 1937-1938, as a civic improvement project by the Thompson Study Club. The library was located in the Town Hall for 45 years. The library moved into a remodeled section of the fire station in 1983.In 1938, the Winnebago Rural Electric Cooperative was established.
The first section of lines was energized on January 3, 1940.A large cement grain elevator was built in 1950, and an even larger cement elevator in 1967.The landmark Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad depot on Main Street burned to the ground on February 26, 1963. The railroad brought in a small structure which served as its replacement until the line shut down in 1980.On October 30, 1974, Peoples State Bank was robbed by three unmasked men.
An abandoned getaway car was found on a gravel road about six miles from town, but the robbers were never apprehended.One of the worst fires in Thompson's history occurred on December 22, 1980, and destroyed about half of the Main Street business block, including the Branding Iron Supper Club, which moved into a new building.In 1983, one of the cement grain elevators ruptured, and was demolished.During the 2020 Covid pandemic, 79 Thompson area businesses received CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program loans.
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