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We would like to provide the residents of  West Branch  a basic history overview.


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

West Branch has a population of 2357. 45.6% of West Branch’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.4 are female. 54.2% of West Branch is married and 81% own their own home. The Average Home price is $177,570, and the average rent is $809. Household median income in West Branch is $64,662, and the individual median income is $31,672. West Branch’s Ethnic is the following: White(92.5%), Multiple(3.5%), Hispanic(2.8%), Asian(2.5%), Black(1.4%).


West Branch was laid out in 1869 by Joseph Steer. It was incorporated in 1875.The city was first settled chiefly by Quakers from Ohio. Its name is derived from the meeting place of the West Branch Quakers, and the location of the city on the west branch of the Wapsinonoc Creek. Most of Main Street is part of the West Branch Commercial Historic District. Before the American Civil War, areas in and around West Branch were stops of the Underground Railroad.


Abolitionist John Brown once stayed at the Maxson farm east of West Branch. He also stayed at James Townsend's inn, the Traveler's Rest, in the winter of 1856. In 2008, archaeologists found evidence of unmarked graves in nearby North Liberty Cemetery while investigating an account of 17 escaped slaves who died before reaching Canada.West Branch experienced rapid growth after the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railway was built through it.President Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch in 1874.


The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library-Museum was dedicated here by Hoover and his close friend, President Harry Truman, in 1962. The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, which includes the Library-Museum, the Hoover Birthplace Cottage and the gravesites of President and Lou Henry Hoover, was authorized by Congress on August 12, 1965.


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