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Charles City

Iowa, United States
Also known as: Charlestown, Saint Charles
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Charles City, city, seat (1854) of Floyd county, northern Iowa, U.S., on the Cedar River, about 30 miles (50 km) east-southeast of Mason City. The site was a campground for the Winnebago before it was settled in 1850 by Joseph Kelly from Monroe, Wisconsin, who named it for his son; it was called Charlestown and St. Charles before receiving its present name in 1860. The McGregor and Sioux City Railroad arrived in the early 1870s,...

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