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What Cheer, IA - History
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Welcome to the What Cheer Home page. The What Cheer Home page provides as much information as possible on What Cheer. Knowing What Cheer’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within What Cheer’s Home page, you will also find What Cheer’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
What Cheer has a population of 715. 47.3% of What Cheer’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 51.6% of What Cheer is married and 62.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $36,500, and the average rent is $741. Household median income in What Cheer is $40,313, and the individual median income is $20,156. What Cheer’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.2%), Hispanic(4.5%), Black(1.5%), Multiple(1.3%), Other(1%).
What Cheer was founded in 1865 as Petersburg, named after Peter Britton, its founder. This name was rejected by the Post Office, forcing a change of name. Joseph Andrews, a major and veteran of the American Civil War, suggested the name "What Cheer," and the town was officially renamed on December 1, 1879.Sources differ as to why the name What Cheer was chosen.
The phrase what cheer with you is an ancient English greeting dating back at least to the 15th century. One theory of the name is that a Scottish miner exclaimed What cheer! on discovering a coal seam near town.A more elaborate theory suggests that Joseph Andrews chose the name because of one of the founding myths of his native town of Providence, Rhode Island.
According to the story, when Roger Williams arrived at the site that would become Providence in 1636, he was greeted by Narragansett Native Americans with "What Cheer, Netop". Netop was the Narragansett word for friend, and the Narragansetts had picked up the what cheer greeting from English settlers.
It is possible that the connection between What Cheer, Iowa and What Cheer, the shibboleth of Rhode Island, was merely coincidental - the entries for these subjects are adjacent but not connected in the 1908 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana.What Cheer has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
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